From garyfranchi at gmail.com Thu May 1 00:47:14 2008 From: garyfranchi at gmail.com (Gary Franchi) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:47:14 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Bob Bowman tour 2008 Message-ID: <2c9e41bb0804302147j233aade6hd494c157796520c8@mail.gmail.com> I just got this from Bob (there were some attachments but they were to big for the list serve): Dear friends, We are planning a 2008 Patriot Tour from June 13 to October 17, starting up the East coast, across the northern tier, down the West coast, then back across the southern states to Florida. We desperately need organizers to set up speaking engagements for me. Attached are documents describing the tour, giving the proposed dates for each city, and guidelines for organizers. Please contact us. At this time deviations from the proposed schedule can still be made. If your city is not on the list, we might be able to add it. Just call me at (321) 752-5955. If I'm not home, try my cell phone (321) 258-0582, or feel free to email me. More detailed information will be sent to those who are willing to organize an event. This will include a list of contacts in your area. In addition to an updated "State of the Union Address", I have several new talks which I think will go over very well. Please let me know of your interest as soon as possible. Thanks! Bob Bowman ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Bob Bowman 1494 Patriot Dr, Melbourne, FL 32940 home (321) 752-5955, cell (321) 258-0582 email: bob at thepatriots.us or rbowman25 at cfl.rr.com web site: www.thepatriots.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hal at drxyzzy.org Fri May 2 08:52:28 2008 From: hal at drxyzzy.org (Hal Snyder) Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 07:52:28 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Immigrant rights video and comment References: Message-ID: Fred Hickler posted this 7-minute video from yesterday's Chicago immigrant rights march last night. You see an aerial view of the march in the last 25 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqNHYQJ2Svw I'm not posting this to advocate a position, but to put information forward. I think we do pretty well on this list at focusing on facts and analysis and not getting into flame wars, even though a wide range of viewpoints is represented. The issue of immigration pushes a lot of hot buttons. Coverage in commercial media is mostly superficial and acrimonious, serving interests of media owners and those with whom they wish to gain favor. I don't think we can have serious discussion of immigration without looking at causes. And I don't see any position on the issue that attempts a sustainable solution. Intuition says things are shifting in our social structures and we are only seeing the initial tremors. We had better find ways to get along because we will need a lot more cooperation and solidarity with all life on the planet to make it through. Hal From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Fri May 2 11:14:30 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 10:14:30 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Immigrant rights video and comment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <481B2FD6.2000702@mailbag.com> Thom Hartmann had an excellent show yesterday on immigrant rights and labor rights / history in the USA. Here it here: http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/hartmann/HartmannShow-(1-5-2008)b.mp3 Regards, Dan Hal Snyder wrote: > Fred Hickler posted this 7-minute video from yesterday's Chicago > immigrant rights march last night. You see an aerial view of the march > in the last 25 seconds. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqNHYQJ2Svw > > I'm not posting this to advocate a position, but to put information > forward. I think we do pretty well on this list at focusing on facts > and analysis and not getting into flame wars, even though a wide range > of viewpoints is represented. > > The issue of immigration pushes a lot of hot buttons. Coverage in > commercial media is mostly superficial and acrimonious, serving > interests of media owners and those with whom they wish to gain favor. > > I don't think we can have serious discussion of immigration without > looking at causes. > > And I don't see any position on the issue that attempts a sustainable > solution. > > Intuition says things are shifting in our social structures and we are > only seeing the initial tremors. We had better find ways to get along > because we will need a lot more cooperation and solidarity with all > life on the planet to make it through. > > Hal > > > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info > From garyfranchi at gmail.com Fri May 2 18:39:51 2008 From: garyfranchi at gmail.com (Gary Franchi) Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 17:39:51 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan Message-ID: <2c9e41bb0805021539n47a2d9a6vb191433a7934e0c8@mail.gmail.com> *Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan* http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ This is it! The perfect way to bring the totalitarian neo cons and nanny government proponents, a.k.a. our present government, to their unconstitutional knees! This is great and goes right to their darkest power, the power to hit print! The government is handing out 152 billion in tax rebates right? Well all we have to do is take that tax rebate money and buy GOLD! That's right, now just let that smile spread across your face, ya just keep thinking about that . . 152 billion fake dollars turned into GOLD held by the American People. They're Done!!! Archimedes along with the rest of the world will take notice and insist that the American Government follow the lead of the American people. The world insisting, "Why we should we accept your fake, borrowed against, deficit spent paper money when even your own people have placed a "Golden Vote" of no confidence in the U.S. government's financial policies?" (A) The government will be forced to shut down the printing presses! (B) No more deficit spending! (C) The government will be forced to obey the constitution concerning money based on Gold and Silver! With our government sponsoring unconstitutional wars with fake unconstitutional paper money and running deficits that make us all debtors this one simple act and stroke of financial security and rebellion against the financial fraud of our present government will do more to empower, secure and accomplish our collective goals than any other idea or action! By taking their fake paper money and turning it into Gold we the People of the United States will be able to wield and enforce the Golden Rule, which is, "Those with the Gold, Rule!" And the Power and the Gold will be back in the hands of the American People where it belongs! This election year I heard some one say, "If you think you are a leader you better take a look behind you and if no one is following you, Man you're just somebody out for a walk." Well, as you well know, we and the other freedom groups are dedicated cadres but if we don't capture the mind, imagination and attention of the American People then we're all just out for a walk in the calm before the storm of destruction that is presently approaching this country. It's time for the freedom forces to start leading the American people not just their own choirs. And as I said, "This is It!" I defy anyone to come up with a better or even equal plan to accomplish our goals, and let's stop right there because you and I both no there isn't. Are you kidding? This is a salesman dream! You're asking the American People to send their out of control government a Golden message that they absolutely can't ignore! It costs the people nothing! They're taking worhtless insulting bribe money and turning it into the financial security of Gold! Do this and we will look over our shoulders to see the American people following us! And many of our goals will be accomplished by this single act. Avery C. Mac Cracken P.O. 1528 Telluride, Colorado 81435 Tel. 970-708-7398 maccrackenclanproductions at hotmail.com Please comment on this action here: http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Sat May 3 15:16:15 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 14:16:15 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] BBV report: FINALLY: Someone is telling the U.S. Gov't where to put its e-voting In-Reply-To: <1159325cc4c034c3af2a9d3b001b2e37@worldnet.att.net> References: <1159325cc4c034c3af2a9d3b001b2e37@worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: <481CB9FF.7010805@mailbag.com> > Black Box Voting was invited to submit comments into the record for the United States Election Assistance Commission's Round Table, which featured and agenda entirely devoted to a what is basically a celebration of computerized vote-counting. We took this opportunity to tell it like it is. > > Discuss this here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/73717.html > > To our great surprise and joy, so did others, including Dr. Rebecca Mercuri and Brad Friedman. Portions of some of their testimony will follow. Here are the formal comments from Black Box Voting: > > EAC VOTING ADVOCATES ROUND TABLE: April 24, 2008 > > I have accepted your invitation to submit the following comments to be entered into the record on behalf of Black Box Voting, by its founder, Bev Harris. > > To members of the EAC and participants of the Round Table: > > The entire premise of technology-based elections is based on support for the "verifiable voting" concept. But before designing technology for elections, we must first determine how it will empower citizen controls, enabling the counting of votes in public rather than counting them in secret. We do not consent to any form of secret vote counting, administered and controlled by government insiders and their vendors. > > Any system that forces the citizenry to trust government insiders to count their votes represents a change in the original design of this nation. The United States of America was designed to uphold the right of citizen sovereignty over the government. In addition to hiding the counting of votes from public view, computer-counted elections hide the chain of custody of the vote data. Citizens are never allowed to view the original input in order to compare it to the output, and are relegated to trusting circumstantial evidence controlled by insiders. Such a system is, in fact, a transfer of power. > > The people were never asked to approve such a transfer of power, have never consented to it, and indeed CANNOT consent, because the right of sovereignty over the instruments of government which we have created is an inalienable right, one which CANNOT be given away, nor can this right be removed through legislation. It is, admittedly, possible for a government to decline to honor this right, but such an act would justify extreme measures by the people subjected to such abuse of power. > > It is the public counting that is key to citizen sovereignty, not computer verification. "Verification" of a computer report is not at all the same as public vote counting. > > The core of elections was and again must return to the principle of citizen sovereignty over government. Elections can never be based on a requirement to trust government insiders and their vendors to count our votes, nor can elections be dependent on experts to tell the citizenry that the system is okay, nor should the detailed mechanics of elections be impossible for the average citizen to understand. Models which depend on experts and insiders create centralized control, and remove all control from government's rightful owners ? the citizens. This represents a violation of the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence. > > Not only does my organization, Black Box Voting, refuse to participate in the design of such systems, but we will do our utmost to inform the populace that such systems must be revoked, by whatever means necessary. > > "We do not consent." > > Bev Harris > Black Box Voting > 330 SW 43rd St Suite K > PMB 547 > Renton WA 98057 > > * * * * * > > And other comments: > > FROM DR. REBECCA MERCURI TO THE EAC: "Another VVSG rewrite, novel designs, or more extensive testing cannot begin to solve these problems until the voters' demands for Transparency, reliability, security, accuracy and auditability requirements have first been appropriately defined and addressed. So long as the goal of certification trumps the need to ensure election integrity, the resulting systems, no matter whose imprimatur they bear, will be invalid and must be rejected." > > FROM BRAD FRIEDMAN TO THE EAC, of the BradBlog: "The blizzard of technical specifications serves only to obscure the fact that, even if such specifications are followed to the satisfaction of federal testers, it will likely continue to remain next to impossible for citizen voters to determine for themselves whether or not reported election results are truly accurate. > > "In eight simple words, certainly far fewer than 598 pages, or even the 6 pages of this document, we defined the heart of the mission I challenge all Americans . whether public servant, advocate, vendor or elected official to join... is simply: To encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy....That ideal must underscore every effort we take today, tomorrow, and in the months and years ahead, as we all work to ensure the continued citizen ownership of a transparent, participatory democracy. > > "That must become your mission at the EAC. Meeting that ideal must underscore your adoption of any new federal voting system guidelines. If we can't see it, we can't trust it. If it does not aid in the mission to encourage citizen ownership of transparent, participatory democracy, it must not be adopted or implemented. > > FROM JOHN WASHBURN TO THE EAC: " To a large degree technology is not the solution to the problem. Technology is the problem. The needs are conflicting to the technology design because there is no consensus in the larger social, political, and legal worlds as to what is a successful election. It is not the place of the TDGC to balance these needs and election virtues. An evaluation of the technical options available cannot be made until a rough consensus in the political, legal, and social world has emerged." > > * * * * * > > See also: "The Myth of Verified Voting": > > In a logical inversion that only Alice in Wonderland could love, that which was sold to the American public as a "solution" to the Florida voter disenfranchisement actually expanded Florida-style disenfranchisement to all 50 states.... > http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/73637.html > > * * * * * > SUPPORT BLACK BOX VOTING "DREAM TEAM" SURGICAL STRIKE UNITS FOR 2008: > > http://www.blackboxvoting.org/donate.html or mail to: > Black Box Voting > 330 SW 43rd St Suite K > PMB 547 > Renton WA 98057 > > Black Box Voting is supported entirely by individual citizen donations. > > * * * * * > From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Sat May 3 16:15:38 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 15:15:38 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] CHI Bite: Going to Pot In-Reply-To: <09efeeaa105977697c0bd458addabc50@localhost.localdomain> References: <09efeeaa105977697c0bd458addabc50@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <481CC7EA.7050802@mailbag.com> > > > > > > Send to a Friend > > > > May 01, 2008 > > > > > > > > Going to Pot > > > Small Changes Add Up > If 10,000 Chicago Biters grow their own lettuce instead of buying it > at the store, we'll keep 74,000 plastic bags out of landfills each year. > > Cocktail Tidbit > Wooden back porches -- like the Lincoln Park one that tragically > collapsed in 2003 - are more common in Chicago than other big cities > because of the wider distance between vintage buildings and the back > alley. > > > Share the Eco Love > Foward > > Subscribe > > My Bites > > View Online > > Print > > > > > > image > > The Bite > Are your plans for a healthier diet falling apart? Save yourself the > haul to the grocery store and learn to grow organic veggies in arms > reach - even without a yard - at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Next > Tuesday's Organic Edibles class covers how to cultivate lunch salad > basics in plain-old pots out on the porch (er, window ledge). Got a > real garden? Learn to keep it green sans nasty pesticides at the > Organic Lawn Care workshop. Or simply head to the Garden's gorgeous > 385 acres and frolic. It's just what the doctor ordered (we biked > there after three sorry, runny-nosed days in bed) when you wanna get > your act together. > > Wanna Try? > Chicago Botanic Garden > , > 1000 Lake Cook Rd b/t Hastings Ave. and Valley Rd., Glencoe > (847-835-5440). Organic Edibles, May 6, 1-3 p.m., $62; Organic Lawn > Care, May 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $60; garden admission, free. > > LIKE THIS BITE? TRY THIS: > The Gray Water Tip > > > > Be adored even more... send your friends > > this tip. > > > > Tees for Change Sky May08 > > > > - SPONSOR - > > > > Tees for Change Banner May08 > > > > > PRESS KIT > > | ADVERTISE > > | CONTACT US > > | EDITORIAL POLICY > > | PRIVACY POLICY > > | TERMS AND CONDITIONS > > > ? Ideal Bite, Inc. > > --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Sat May 3 19:02:31 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 18:02:31 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan In-Reply-To: <2c9e41bb0805021539n47a2d9a6vb191433a7934e0c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <2c9e41bb0805021539n47a2d9a6vb191433a7934e0c8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <481CEF07.5060107@thetwofacesofmoney.com> Gary etal, Gold is not money, and it is not constitutional. The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin (as in create) money and regulate the value thereof and it limits those things the states may use as money. NO WHERE does it say gold is money. Early on, gold and silver did serve as money, inasmuch as they could be mined by anyone and turned into standard coins for free at the US Mint, just as a farmer could use his hemp or tobacco crop to pay taxes. But this all ended with the Coinage Act of 1873, sometimes called the Crime of '73. The belief that gold is money is based upon a flawed concept of money. Whether money takes the form of gold, paper, sea shells or any other form misses what the true function of money is and how that function might best be met. There are many problems with using gold as money, not the least of which has to do with the fact that gold has, since ancient Babylonia, been the money of kings. (Read this 1878 article by Lysander Spooner http://www.lysanderspooner.org/goldandsilver.htm and you might find this interesting: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/674984/posts ) As the money of kings, gold is and always has been owned by kings, controlled by kings - and when it suits them it is taken away by kings. Consider FDR's confiscation of the people's gold, which a mere few months afterwords he converted to profit by revaluing the dollar so that the debts of the bankers might be paid. The confiscated gold was then held in fort Knox and made subject to ?a future agreement among the Nations of the World for a redistribution of the world stock of gold?. (Read my book, where I spend a lot of time on gold:, and what the Constitution says, or doesn't say about it: http://www.thetwofacesofmoney.com/index.php/Main/HomePage ) Our lack of understanding about the true nature of money has enabled the banking elite to subvert our Constitution a piece at at time and put in its place a sovereign power structure that has taken this country from one based on the unalienable rights of a sovereign people to a constitutional dictatorship that can only be sustained by militarism and fear. the truth will indeed set us free! gerip Gary Franchi wrote: > *Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan* > http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ > > This is it! The perfect way to bring the totalitarian neo cons and > nanny government proponents, a.k.a. our present government, to their > unconstitutional knees! This is great and goes right to their > darkest power, the power to hit print! > > The government is handing out 152 billion in tax rebates right? Well > all we have to do is take that tax rebate money and buy GOLD! That's > right, now just let that smile spread across your face, ya just keep > thinking about that . . 152 billion fake dollars turned into > GOLD held by the American People. They're Done!!! > > Archimedes along with the rest of the world will take notice and > insist that the American Government follow the lead of the American > people. The world insisting, "Why we should we accept your fake, > borrowed against, deficit spent paper money when even your own > people have placed a "Golden Vote" of no confidence in the U.S. > government's financial policies?" > > (A) The government will be forced to shut down the printing > presses! > (B) No more deficit spending! > (C) The government will be forced to obey the constitution > concerning money based on Gold and Silver! > > With our government sponsoring unconstitutional wars with fake > unconstitutional paper money and running deficits that make us all > debtors this one simple act and stroke of financial security and > rebellion against the financial fraud of our present government > will do more to empower, secure and accomplish our collective goals > than any other idea or action! > > By taking their fake paper money and turning it into Gold we the > People of the United States will be able to wield and enforce the > Golden Rule, which is, "Those with the Gold, Rule!" And the Power > and the Gold will be back in the hands of the American People where > it belongs! > > This election year I heard some one say, "If you think you are a > leader you better take a look behind you and if no one is following > you, Man you're just somebody out for a walk." Well, as you well > know, we and the other freedom groups are dedicated cadres but if > we don't capture the mind, imagination and attention of the American > People then we're all just out for a walk in the calm before the > storm of destruction that is presently approaching this country. > It's time for the freedom forces to start leading the American > people not just their own choirs. And as I said, "This is It!" I > defy anyone to come up with a better or even equal plan to > accomplish our goals, and let's stop right there because you and I > both no there isn't. Are you kidding? This is a salesman dream! > You're asking the American People to send their out of control > government a Golden message that they absolutely can't ignore! It > costs the people nothing! They're taking worhtless insulting bribe > money and turning it into the financial security of Gold! Do this > and we will look over our shoulders to see the American people > following us! And many of our goals will be accomplished by this > single act. > > Avery C. Mac Cracken > P.O. 1528 > Telluride, Colorado 81435 > Tel. 970-708-7398 > maccrackenclanproductions at hotmail.com > > > Please comment on this action here: > http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info > From mjkirk12 at yahoo.com Sun May 4 09:26:25 2008 From: mjkirk12 at yahoo.com (Mike Kirk) Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 06:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan In-Reply-To: <481CEF07.5060107@thetwofacesofmoney.com> Message-ID: <465762.82615.qm@web83821.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Geri, At this point in time, I would rather hold gold/silver than inflated US Federal Reserve notes. And I should have the freedom to risk and choose. Why is gold/silver unconstitutional? How can a naturally occurring element (silver or gold) be unconstitutional - maybe it is just part of the 9th and 10th amendments? Maybe just outside the scope of the Constitution? Is Oxygen unconstitutional? Nitrogen? :-) If the US ever reaches the 'financial utopia' of government issued debt-free money, I will exchange my gold and silver for this more stable currency. Until this happens, gold and silver seem to be a better store of value. -Mike Geri Perry wrote: Gary etal, Gold is not money, and it is not constitutional. The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin (as in create) money and regulate the value thereof and it limits those things the states may use as money. NO WHERE does it say gold is money. Early on, gold and silver did serve as money, inasmuch as they could be mined by anyone and turned into standard coins for free at the US Mint, just as a farmer could use his hemp or tobacco crop to pay taxes. But this all ended with the Coinage Act of 1873, sometimes called the Crime of '73. The belief that gold is money is based upon a flawed concept of money. Whether money takes the form of gold, paper, sea shells or any other form misses what the true function of money is and how that function might best be met. There are many problems with using gold as money, not the least of which has to do with the fact that gold has, since ancient Babylonia, been the money of kings. (Read this 1878 article by Lysander Spooner http://www.lysanderspooner.org/goldandsilver.htm and you might find this interesting: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/674984/posts ) As the money of kings, gold is and always has been owned by kings, controlled by kings - and when it suits them it is taken away by kings. Consider FDR's confiscation of the people's gold, which a mere few months afterwords he converted to profit by revaluing the dollar so that the debts of the bankers might be paid. The confiscated gold was then held in fort Knox and made subject to ?a future agreement among the Nations of the World for a redistribution of the world stock of gold?. (Read my book, where I spend a lot of time on gold:, and what the Constitution says, or doesn't say about it: http://www.thetwofacesofmoney.com/index.php/Main/HomePage ) Our lack of understanding about the true nature of money has enabled the banking elite to subvert our Constitution a piece at at time and put in its place a sovereign power structure that has taken this country from one based on the unalienable rights of a sovereign people to a constitutional dictatorship that can only be sustained by militarism and fear. the truth will indeed set us free! gerip Gary Franchi wrote: > *Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan* > http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ > > This is it! The perfect way to bring the totalitarian neo cons and > nanny government proponents, a.k.a. our present government, to their > unconstitutional knees! This is great and goes right to their > darkest power, the power to hit print! > > The government is handing out 152 billion in tax rebates right? Well > all we have to do is take that tax rebate money and buy GOLD! That's > right, now just let that smile spread across your face, ya just keep > thinking about that . . 152 billion fake dollars turned into > GOLD held by the American People. They're Done!!! > > Archimedes along with the rest of the world will take notice and > insist that the American Government follow the lead of the American > people. The world insisting, "Why we should we accept your fake, > borrowed against, deficit spent paper money when even your own > people have placed a "Golden Vote" of no confidence in the U.S. > government's financial policies?" > > (A) The government will be forced to shut down the printing > presses! > (B) No more deficit spending! > (C) The government will be forced to obey the constitution > concerning money based on Gold and Silver! > > With our government sponsoring unconstitutional wars with fake > unconstitutional paper money and running deficits that make us all > debtors this one simple act and stroke of financial security and > rebellion against the financial fraud of our present government > will do more to empower, secure and accomplish our collective goals > than any other idea or action! > > By taking their fake paper money and turning it into Gold we the > People of the United States will be able to wield and enforce the > Golden Rule, which is, "Those with the Gold, Rule!" And the Power > and the Gold will be back in the hands of the American People where > it belongs! > > This election year I heard some one say, "If you think you are a > leader you better take a look behind you and if no one is following > you, Man you're just somebody out for a walk." Well, as you well > know, we and the other freedom groups are dedicated cadres but if > we don't capture the mind, imagination and attention of the American > People then we're all just out for a walk in the calm before the > storm of destruction that is presently approaching this country. > It's time for the freedom forces to start leading the American > people not just their own choirs. And as I said, "This is It!" I > defy anyone to come up with a better or even equal plan to > accomplish our goals, and let's stop right there because you and I > both no there isn't. Are you kidding? This is a salesman dream! > You're asking the American People to send their out of control > government a Golden message that they absolutely can't ignore! It > costs the people nothing! They're taking worhtless insulting bribe > money and turning it into the financial security of Gold! Do this > and we will look over our shoulders to see the American people > following us! And many of our goals will be accomplished by this > single act. > > Avery C. Mac Cracken > P.O. 1528 > Telluride, Colorado 81435 > Tel. 970-708-7398 > maccrackenclanproductions at hotmail.com > > > Please comment on this action here: > http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info > _______________________________________________ CitizensTruth mailing list CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth website: http://citizenstruth.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From futurenotwritten at yahoo.com Sun May 4 12:12:44 2008 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com (Jay Becker) Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 09:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] "Hope for Corporate America" Message-ID: <329681.37753.qm@web33507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Chris Hedges on Obama?s Corporate Side "Hope for Corporate America" -- The corporate state is our shadow government. Candidates who aspire to higher office get corporate money if they promote corporate interests. Barack Obama?s campaign message, filled with lofty promises of change and hope, is also filled with repeated reassurances to the corporate elite. Declare It Now! Wear Orange! Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes & Crimes against Humanity! --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Sun May 4 19:20:38 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 18:20:38 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan In-Reply-To: <465762.82615.qm@web83821.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <465762.82615.qm@web83821.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <481E44C6.5010801@thetwofacesofmoney.com> Mike etal, Seems you are forgetting that FDR confiscated the peoples' gold. He did this through "emergency War powers" which not only made the American people enemies of the state, but as I show in my book, this "war emergency" has never been lifted. Only amplified by Executive Orders, which provide for confiscation of all things "owned" by the people including stores of food and water. Look them up for yourself. (Later we got signing statements which allow the President to "legally" ignore laws passed by Congress.) We are now living under a modified "martial law." We have been operating outside the Constitution for a very long time. Truth is we have been operating as Unconstitutional Dictatorship since FDR, and a Constitutional dictatorship since the Civil War. As Aaron Russo knew, this all has been done bit by bit, beginning with the "new legal regime" created by the Reconstruction Amendments. Again as I show in my book, the forces behind this were the banking/finaincial elite, the same group that got their debts paid on the backs of We the People when FDR essentially sold the confiscated peoples gold at a profit. gerip Mike Kirk wrote: > Geri, > > At this point in time, I would rather hold gold/silver than inflated > US Federal Reserve notes. And I should have the freedom to risk and > choose. > > Why is gold/silver unconstitutional? How can a naturally occurring > element (silver or gold) be unconstitutional - maybe it is just part > of the 9th and 10th amendments? Maybe just outside the scope of the > Constitution? > Is Oxygen unconstitutional? Nitrogen? :-) > > If the US ever reaches the 'financial utopia' of government issued > debt-free money, I will exchange my gold and silver for this more > stable currency. Until this happens, gold and silver seem to be a > better store of value. > > -Mike > > */Geri Perry /* wrote: > > Gary etal, > > Gold is not money, and it is not constitutional. > > The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin (as in create) > money > and regulate the value thereof and it limits those things the > states may > use as money. NO WHERE does it say gold is money. Early on, gold and > silver did serve as money, inasmuch as they could be mined by > anyone and > turned into standard coins for free at the US Mint, just as a farmer > could use his hemp or tobacco crop to pay taxes. But this all > ended with > the Coinage Act of 1873, sometimes called the Crime of '73. > > The belief that gold is money is based upon a flawed concept of > money. > Whether money takes the form of gold, paper, sea shells or any other > form misses what the true function of money is and how that function > might best be met. There are many problems with using gold as > money, not > the least of which has to do with the fact that gold has, since > ancient > Babylonia, been the money of kings. (Read this 1878 article by > Lysander > Spooner http://www.lysanderspooner.org/goldandsilver.htm and you > might > find this interesting: > http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/674984/posts ) > > As the money of kings, gold is and always has been owned by kings, > controlled by kings - and when it suits them it is taken away by > kings. > Consider FDR's confiscation of the people's gold, which a mere few > months afterwords he converted to profit by revaluing the dollar > so that > the debts of the bankers might be paid. The confiscated gold was then > held in fort Knox and made subject to ?a future agreement among the > Nations of the World for a redistribution of the world stock of > gold?. > (Read my book, where I spend a lot of time on gold:, and what the > Constitution says, or doesn't say about it: > http://www.thetwofacesofmoney.com/index.php/Main/HomePage ) > > Our lack of understanding about the true nature of money has > enabled the > banking elite to subvert our Constitution a piece at at time and > put in > its place a sovereign power structure that has taken this country > from > one based on the unalienable rights of a sovereign people to a > constitutional dictatorship that can only be sustained by > militarism and > fear. > > the truth will indeed set us free! > gerip > > > > > > > Gary Franchi wrote: > > *Paper into Gold - The Perfect Plan* > > http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ > > > > This is it! The perfect way to bring the totalitarian neo cons and > > nanny government proponents, a.k.a. our present government, to their > > unconstitutional knees! This is great and goes right to their > > darkest power, the power to hit print! > > > > The government is handing out 152 billion in tax rebates right? Well > > all we have to do is take that tax rebate money and buy GOLD! That's > > right, now just let that smile spread across your face, ya just keep > > thinking about that . . 152 billion fake dollars turned into > > GOLD held by the American People. They're Done!!! > > > > Archimedes along with the rest of the world will take notice and > > insist that the American Government follow the lead of the American > > people. The world insisting, "Why we should we accept your fake, > > borrowed against, deficit spent paper money when even your own > > people have placed a "Golden Vote" of no confidence in the U.S. > > government's financial policies?" > > > > (A) The government will be forced to shut down the printing > > presses! > > (B) No more deficit spending! > > (C) The government will be forced to obey the constitution > > concerning money based on Gold and Silver! > > > > With our government sponsoring unconstitutional wars with fake > > unconstitutional paper money and running deficits that make us all > > debtors this one simple act and stroke of financial security and > > rebellion against the financial fraud of our present government > > will do more to empower, secure and accomplish our collective goals > > than any other idea or action! > > > > By taking their fake paper money and turning it into Gold we the > > People of the United States will be able to wield and enforce the > > Golden Rule, which is, "Those with the Gold, Rule!" And the Power > > and the Gold will be back in the hands of the American People where > > it belongs! > > > > This election year I heard some one say, "If you think you are a > > leader you better take a look behind you and if no one is following > > you, Man you're just somebody out for a walk." Well, as you well > > know, we and the other freedom groups are dedicated cadres but if > > we don't capture the mind, imagination and attention of the American > > People then we're all just out for a walk in the calm before the > > storm of destruction that is presently approaching this country. > > It's time for the freedom forces to start leading the American > > people not just their own choirs. And as I said, "This is It!" I > > defy anyone to come up with a better or even equal plan to > > accomplish our goals, and let's stop right there because you and I > > both no there isn't. Are you kidding? This is a salesman dream! > > You're asking the American People to send their out of control > > government a Golden message that they absolutely can't ignore! It > > costs the people nothing! They're taking worhtless insulting bribe > > money and turning it into the financial security of Gold! Do this > > and we will look over our shoulders to see the American people > > following us! And many of our goals will be accomplished by this > > single act. > > > > Avery C. Mac Cracken > > P.O. 1528 > > Telluride, Colorado 81435 > > Tel. 970-708-7398 > > maccrackenclanproductions at hotmail.com > > > > > > Please comment on this action here: > > http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1099/71/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CitizensTruth mailing list > > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > > website: http://citizenstruth.info > > > > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info > From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Mon May 5 19:18:51 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 18:18:51 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obama and the establishment Message-ID: <481F95DB.8080700@thetwofacesofmoney.com> The good reverend may not have the whole picture (who does?) but the one he does have is a WHOLE lot better than the treacherous pablum of Obama etal. . Here's a recent Glenn Beck program, purportedly dissecting Wright's "craziness" by showing Wright "in his own words", to wit: "The government lied"about Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskeegee, Cambodia, Iran/Contra, state sponsored terrorism, inventing HIV as a means of depopulating "brown" people, 9-11 and Iraqi "Freedom" and more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8-ghRddNI&feature=related Hmmmm - doesn't sound so crazy to me. For those interested here is a complete audio versions of the original "9-11" sermon titled The Day of Jerusalem's Fall, the day that "the people moved from reverence to revenge, from worship to war, from hatred of armed enemies to hatred of unarmed innocents": http://odeo.com/audio/17889043/view The good Reverend's conclusion: this is the time for self examination and social transformation, a time to be grateful that the lord has given us another chance. Such crazy talk!! Despite his alleged "craziness" I for one think that this truth teller deserves a medal, not character assassination delivered compliments of Obama etal. gerip From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Tue May 6 03:43:03 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 02:43:03 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obama andthe establishment In-Reply-To: <481F95DB.8080700@thetwofacesofmoney.com> References: <481F95DB.8080700@thetwofacesofmoney.com> Message-ID: <893E0A9571B74C7AB6B4990471E28A61@InspironConnie> I guess Wright eventually decided it's okay to sink Obama in order to get out his own message. If it did some good, I'd say "Amen" to this truth-spouting preacher. But all that Wright is accomplishing is being painted as a wacko (like us!) And the good that I think Obama could do, having observed him up close when he was a state legislator, gets tanked. The media controls impressions, it doesn't really convey information. It doesn't matter how thoroughly Wright explains himself or how accurate he is on these shocking matters -- most people are left with the desired, negative, wacko impression of him -- so that the truth doesn't get out. I mean, we don't all go spouting the reality of UFOs from the rooftops -- out of respect for our 9/11 movement's credibility and in consideration of the public's unreadiness. But Wright suddenly didn't care about any of that sort of wisdom. In fact I think he's set back the RESPONSIBLE release of information by some years at least. "Oh if you believe any of that, you're just like that awful, wild-eyed Chicago preacher! What was his name?" I have felt that Obama might be like JFK in that Kennedy did and said certain things to get elected, but then he started acting independently -- against the corporate-military interests and for the people -- once he was in office. (So of course they blew off his head.) Wright has been right but then he went all-out reckless. I don't think truth should be a hammer that harms but a light that shines. He's blown that. And in reaction -- which should have been further avoided -- Obama has been driven to compromise himself. Now a totally sick situation, in my opinion. Connie I think Obama would ultimately reign in Israel, by the way. Just look at the views of one his top advisers! http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12937 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geri Perry" To: "Citizens Truth" Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:18 PM Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obama andthe establishment > The good reverend may not have the whole picture (who does?) but the one > he does have is a WHOLE lot better than the treacherous pablum of Obama > etal. . > > Here's a recent Glenn Beck program, purportedly dissecting Wright's > "craziness" by showing Wright "in his own words", to wit: > > "The government lied"about Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskeegee, > Cambodia, Iran/Contra, state sponsored terrorism, inventing HIV as a means > of depopulating "brown" people, 9-11 and Iraqi "Freedom" and more: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8-ghRddNI&feature=related > > Hmmmm - doesn't sound so crazy to me. > > For those interested here is a complete audio versions of the original > "9-11" sermon titled The Day of Jerusalem's Fall, the day that "the people > moved from reverence to revenge, from worship to war, from hatred of armed > enemies to hatred of unarmed innocents": > http://odeo.com/audio/17889043/view > > The good Reverend's conclusion: this is the time for self examination and > social transformation, a time to be grateful that the lord has given us > another chance. Such crazy talk!! > > Despite his alleged "craziness" I for one think that this truth teller > deserves a medal, not character assassination delivered compliments of > Obama etal. > > gerip > > > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Tue May 6 13:52:24 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:52:24 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obama andthe establishment In-Reply-To: <893E0A9571B74C7AB6B4990471E28A61@InspironConnie> References: <481F95DB.8080700@thetwofacesofmoney.com> <893E0A9571B74C7AB6B4990471E28A61@InspironConnie> Message-ID: <48209AD8.7020109@thetwofacesofmoney.com> I have to disagree. Some key points to consider: *** The truth is that absolutely anyone can be labeled as one of the crazies by the media, even "alternative" media - when the purpose suits the elite agenda. The list of examples here are absolutely endless. (a good book to read about elite orchestration of "L'Infamie" is Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr) **** Wright was giving a sermon to a relatively limited audience, and yet it magically becomes "national" news overnight. Odd isn't it, how that happens? Why didn't stories of the 2000 unconstitutional selection of the current WH resident or the rampant vote fraud occurring all over the US especially in 2004 make endless MSM rounds. Or how about the many attempts to "open debate" by Mark Crispin Miller or Bob Fritakis, or Paul Craig Roberts or - well, you get the picture. There are many more examples from the memory hole that list comes from. **** If one listens to Wright's sermon, there actually is very little controversy in it, especially if one has done their homework so to speak. Moreover his MESSAGE was universal. But your point that discretion -about things like UFOs for example is well taken. However, there is probably a reasonable way to bring even that topic forward, given the fact the Larry King and the history channel have both recently done several shows on it. *** We are being manipulated by Mainstream media into believing we have a voice in the election with slogans like "Decision 2008". How much more will it take before we fully understand that our elections are rigged FROM START TO FINISH. This is the main (but far from the only) reason why no honest, truth-telling candidate, like Dennis Kucinich - and to a lesser extent IMO - Ron Paul ever gets any real traction. ***Obama is full of compromises, not just with the distancing of his "beloved" pastor. These compromises appear in his voting record, his prevarications on a variety of issues including 9-11, his relationship with Rezco and a whole lot more. His history shows none of the boldness of JFK. Certainly none of the integrity shown by Dennis Kucinich or the articulate outspokeness of Ron Paul. And yet he appears out of nowhere four years ago - as "junior Senator from Illinois"- to give the keynote speech at the Democratic Convention. *** We have to learn to stop censoring ourselves and each other. To wit, WHO CARES WHAT MSM TELLS US? WE KNOW THAT ODDS ARE IT'S ALL A BIG FAT LIE. It really is with each other, through our churches and whatever other forum we can find that we must communicate the truth to the best of our abilities. gerip Connie Smith wrote: > I guess Wright eventually decided it's okay to sink Obama in order to > get out his own message. If it did some good, I'd say "Amen" to this > truth-spouting preacher. > > But all that Wright is accomplishing is being painted as a wacko (like > us!) And the good that I think Obama could do, having observed him up > close when he was a state legislator, gets tanked. > > The media controls impressions, it doesn't really convey information. > It doesn't matter how thoroughly Wright explains himself or how > accurate he is on these shocking matters -- most people are left with > the desired, negative, wacko impression of him -- so that the truth > doesn't get out. > > I mean, we don't all go spouting the reality of UFOs from the rooftops > -- out of respect for our 9/11 movement's credibility and in > consideration of the public's unreadiness. But Wright suddenly didn't > care about any of that sort of wisdom. In fact I think he's set back > the RESPONSIBLE release of information by some years at least. "Oh if > you believe any of that, you're just like that awful, wild-eyed > Chicago preacher! What was his name?" > > I have felt that Obama might be like JFK in that Kennedy did and said > certain things to get elected, but then he started acting > independently -- against the corporate-military interests and for the > people -- once he was in office. (So of course they blew off his head.) > > Wright has been right but then he went all-out reckless. I don't > think truth should be a hammer that harms but a light that shines. > He's blown that. > > And in reaction -- which should have been further avoided -- Obama has > been driven to compromise himself. > > Now a totally sick situation, in my opinion. > > Connie > I think Obama would ultimately reign in Israel, by the way. Just look > at the views of one his top advisers! > http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12937 > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geri Perry" > > To: "Citizens Truth" > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:18 PM > Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for > Obama andthe establishment > > >> The good reverend may not have the whole picture (who does?) but the >> one he does have is a WHOLE lot better than the treacherous pablum of >> Obama etal. . >> >> Here's a recent Glenn Beck program, purportedly dissecting Wright's >> "craziness" by showing Wright "in his own words", to wit: >> >> "The government lied"about Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskeegee, >> Cambodia, Iran/Contra, state sponsored terrorism, inventing HIV as a >> means of depopulating "brown" people, 9-11 and Iraqi "Freedom" and >> more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8-ghRddNI&feature=related >> >> Hmmmm - doesn't sound so crazy to me. >> >> For those interested here is a complete audio versions of the >> original "9-11" sermon titled The Day of Jerusalem's Fall, the day >> that "the people moved from reverence to revenge, from worship to >> war, from hatred of armed enemies to hatred of unarmed innocents": >> http://odeo.com/audio/17889043/view >> >> The good Reverend's conclusion: this is the time for self examination >> and social transformation, a time to be grateful that the lord has >> given us another chance. Such crazy talk!! >> >> Despite his alleged "craziness" I for one think that this truth >> teller deserves a medal, not character assassination delivered >> compliments of Obama etal. >> >> gerip >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CitizensTruth mailing list >> CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth >> website: http://citizenstruth.info From mjkirk12 at yahoo.com Tue May 6 14:38:51 2008 From: mjkirk12 at yahoo.com (Mike Kirk) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obama andthe establishment In-Reply-To: <48209AD8.7020109@thetwofacesofmoney.com> Message-ID: <552170.18338.qm@web83813.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> The MSM usually does tell the truth - 5- 6 years after the fact when nobody is paying attention anymore. They are looking at the new MSM "crisis". For the MSM, the truth doesn't sell - only lies appear to have value anymore. Much of what Wright said is true -> Wright is right. -Mike Geri Perry wrote: I have to disagree. Some key points to consider: *** The truth is that absolutely anyone can be labeled as one of the crazies by the media, even "alternative" media - when the purpose suits the elite agenda. The list of examples here are absolutely endless. (a good book to read about elite orchestration of "L'Infamie" is Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr) **** Wright was giving a sermon to a relatively limited audience, and yet it magically becomes "national" news overnight. Odd isn't it, how that happens? Why didn't stories of the 2000 unconstitutional selection of the current WH resident or the rampant vote fraud occurring all over the US especially in 2004 make endless MSM rounds. Or how about the many attempts to "open debate" by Mark Crispin Miller or Bob Fritakis, or Paul Craig Roberts or - well, you get the picture. There are many more examples from the memory hole that list comes from. **** If one listens to Wright's sermon, there actually is very little controversy in it, especially if one has done their homework so to speak. Moreover his MESSAGE was universal. But your point that discretion -about things like UFOs for example is well taken. However, there is probably a reasonable way to bring even that topic forward, given the fact the Larry King and the history channel have both recently done several shows on it. *** We are being manipulated by Mainstream media into believing we have a voice in the election with slogans like "Decision 2008". How much more will it take before we fully understand that our elections are rigged FROM START TO FINISH. This is the main (but far from the only) reason why no honest, truth-telling candidate, like Dennis Kucinich - and to a lesser extent IMO - Ron Paul ever gets any real traction. ***Obama is full of compromises, not just with the distancing of his "beloved" pastor. These compromises appear in his voting record, his prevarications on a variety of issues including 9-11, his relationship with Rezco and a whole lot more. His history shows none of the boldness of JFK. Certainly none of the integrity shown by Dennis Kucinich or the articulate outspokeness of Ron Paul. And yet he appears out of nowhere four years ago - as "junior Senator from Illinois"- to give the keynote speech at the Democratic Convention. *** We have to learn to stop censoring ourselves and each other. To wit, WHO CARES WHAT MSM TELLS US? WE KNOW THAT ODDS ARE IT'S ALL A BIG FAT LIE. It really is with each other, through our churches and whatever other forum we can find that we must communicate the truth to the best of our abilities. gerip Connie Smith wrote: > I guess Wright eventually decided it's okay to sink Obama in order to > get out his own message. If it did some good, I'd say "Amen" to this > truth-spouting preacher. > > But all that Wright is accomplishing is being painted as a wacko (like > us!) And the good that I think Obama could do, having observed him up > close when he was a state legislator, gets tanked. > > The media controls impressions, it doesn't really convey information. > It doesn't matter how thoroughly Wright explains himself or how > accurate he is on these shocking matters -- most people are left with > the desired, negative, wacko impression of him -- so that the truth > doesn't get out. > > I mean, we don't all go spouting the reality of UFOs from the rooftops > -- out of respect for our 9/11 movement's credibility and in > consideration of the public's unreadiness. But Wright suddenly didn't > care about any of that sort of wisdom. In fact I think he's set back > the RESPONSIBLE release of information by some years at least. "Oh if > you believe any of that, you're just like that awful, wild-eyed > Chicago preacher! What was his name?" > > I have felt that Obama might be like JFK in that Kennedy did and said > certain things to get elected, but then he started acting > independently -- against the corporate-military interests and for the > people -- once he was in office. (So of course they blew off his head.) > > Wright has been right but then he went all-out reckless. I don't > think truth should be a hammer that harms but a light that shines. > He's blown that. > > And in reaction -- which should have been further avoided -- Obama has > been driven to compromise himself. > > Now a totally sick situation, in my opinion. > > Connie > I think Obama would ultimately reign in Israel, by the way. Just look > at the views of one his top advisers! > http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12937 > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geri Perry" > > To: "Citizens Truth" > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:18 PM > Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for > Obama andthe establishment > > >> The good reverend may not have the whole picture (who does?) but the >> one he does have is a WHOLE lot better than the treacherous pablum of >> Obama etal. . >> >> Here's a recent Glenn Beck program, purportedly dissecting Wright's >> "craziness" by showing Wright "in his own words", to wit: >> >> "The government lied"about Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskeegee, >> Cambodia, Iran/Contra, state sponsored terrorism, inventing HIV as a >> means of depopulating "brown" people, 9-11 and Iraqi "Freedom" and >> more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8-ghRddNI&feature=related >> >> Hmmmm - doesn't sound so crazy to me. >> >> For those interested here is a complete audio versions of the >> original "9-11" sermon titled The Day of Jerusalem's Fall, the day >> that "the people moved from reverence to revenge, from worship to >> war, from hatred of armed enemies to hatred of unarmed innocents": >> http://odeo.com/audio/17889043/view >> >> The good Reverend's conclusion: this is the time for self examination >> and social transformation, a time to be grateful that the lord has >> given us another chance. Such crazy talk!! >> >> Despite his alleged "craziness" I for one think that this truth >> teller deserves a medal, not character assassination delivered >> compliments of Obama etal. >> >> gerip >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CitizensTruth mailing list >> CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth >> website: http://citizenstruth.info _______________________________________________ CitizensTruth mailing list CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth website: http://citizenstruth.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Tue May 6 16:02:35 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:02:35 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obamaandthe establishment In-Reply-To: <552170.18338.qm@web83813.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <552170.18338.qm@web83813.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1F2507AE079A43F9B28C4561C4056C36@InspironConnie> Well, I know I'm right about UFOs too, but I don't blast away in the media about it anymore out of respect for our 9/11 Truth cause. It's pure ego, IMO, to be associated with another cause like a politician or a movement -- and yet just blast away without any regard for the other cause. I wrote elsewhere that Wright could have gracefully accepted Obama's reasonable response that he doesn't agree with his pastor about everything, like most people don't agree with their pastors about everything. Then Wright could've sat down and wrote out his truth for publication after the political season is over -- with both causes being served and without one being so damaged. Wright is right on the issues, but now I find his behavior and his judgment to be appalling. If he's pissed off at Obama "for not agreeing on everything," then he is acting out with childish vengeance. And if he's trying to actually destroy Obama, what does that say about his character? I would have hoped that Wright was mature enough and wise enough to not do so much harm. Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Kirk To: Citizens Truth Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obamaandthe establishment The MSM usually does tell the truth - 5- 6 years after the fact when nobody is paying attention anymore. They are looking at the new MSM "crisis". For the MSM, the truth doesn't sell - only lies appear to have value anymore. Much of what Wright said is true -> Wright is right. -Mike Geri Perry wrote: I have to disagree. Some key points to consider: *** The truth is that absolutely anyone can be labeled as one of the crazies by the media, even "alternative" media - when the purpose suits the elite agenda. The list of examples here are absolutely endless. (a good book to read about elite orchestration of "L'Infamie" is Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr) **** Wright was giving a sermon to a relatively limited audience, and yet it magically becomes "national" news overnight. Odd isn't it, how that happens? Why didn't stories of the 2000 unconstitutional selection of the current WH resident or the rampant vote fraud occurring all over the US especially in 2004 make endless MSM rounds. Or how about the many attempts to "open debate" by Mark Crispin Miller or Bob Fritakis, or Paul Craig Roberts or - well, you get the picture. There are many more examples from the memory hole that list comes from. **** If one listens to Wright's sermon, there actually is very little controversy in it, especially if one has done their homework so to speak. Moreover his MESSAGE was universal. But your point that discretion -about things like UFOs for example is well taken. However, there is probably a reasonable way to bring even that topic forward, given the fact the Larry King and the history channel have both recently done several shows on it. *** We are being manipulated by Mainstream media into believing we have a voice in the election with slogans like "Decision 2008". How much more will it take before we fully understand that our elections are rigged FROM START TO FINISH. This is the main (but far from the only) reason why no honest, truth-telling candidate, like Dennis Kucinich - and to a lesser extent IMO - Ron Paul ever gets any real traction. ***Obama is full of compromises, not just with the distancing of his "beloved" pastor. These compromises appear in his voting record, his prevarications on a variety of issues including 9-11, his relationship with Rezco and a whole lot more. His history shows none of the boldness of JFK. Certainly none of the integrity shown by Dennis Kucinich or the articulate outspokeness of Ron Paul. And yet he appears out of nowhere four years ago - as "junior Senator from Illinois"- to give the keynote speech at the Democratic Convention. *** We have to learn to stop censoring ourselves and each other. To wit, WHO CARES WHAT MSM TELLS US? WE KNOW THAT ODDS ARE IT'S ALL A BIG FAT LIE. It really is with each other, through our churches and whatever other forum we can find that we must communicate the truth to the best of our abilities. gerip Connie Smith wrote: > I guess Wright eventually decided it's okay to sink Obama in order to > get out his own message. If it did some good, I'd say "Amen" to this > truth-spouting preacher. > > But all that Wright is accomplishing is being painted as a wacko (like > us!) And the good that I think Obama could do, having observed him up > close when he was a state legislator, gets tanked. > > The media controls impressions, it doesn't really convey information. > It doesn't matter how thoroughly Wright explains himself or how > accurate he is on these shocking matters -- most people are left with > the desired, negative, wacko impression of him -- so that the truth > doesn't get out. > > I mean, we don't all go spouting the reality of UFOs from the rooftops > -- out of respect for our 9/11 movement's credibility and in > consideration of the public's unreadiness. But Wright suddenly didn't > care about any of that sort of wisdom. In fact I think he's set back > the RESPONSIBLE release of information by some years at least. "Oh if > you believe any of that, you're just like that awful, wild-eyed > Chicago preacher! What was his name?" > > I have felt that Obama might be like JFK in that Kennedy did and said > certain things to get elected, but then he started acting > independently -- against the corporate-military interests and for the > people -- once he was in office. (So of course they blew off his head.) > > Wright has been right but then he went all-out reckless. I don't > think truth should be a hammer that harms but a light that shines. > He's blown that. > > And in reaction -- which should have been further avoided -- Obama has > been driven to compromise himself. > > Now a totally sick situation, in my opinion. > > Connie > I think Obama would ultimately reign in Israel, by the way. Just look > at the views of one his top advisers! > http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12937 > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geri Perry" > > To: "Citizens Truth" > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:18 PM > Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for > Obama andthe establishment > > >> The good reverend may not have the whole picture (who does?) but the >> one he does have is a WHOLE lot better than the treacherous pablum of >> Obama etal. . >> >> Here's a recent Glenn Beck program, purportedly dissecting Wright's >> "craziness" by showing Wright "in his own words", to wit: >> >> "The government lied"about Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskeegee, >> Cambodia, Iran/Contra, state sponsored terrorism, inventing HIV as a >> means of depopulating "brown" people, 9-11 and Iraqi "Freedom" and >> more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ8-ghRddNI&feature=related >> >> Hmmmm - doesn't sound so crazy to me. >> >> For those interested here is a complete audio versions of the >> original "9-11" sermon titled The Day of Jerusalem's Fall, the day >> that "the people moved from reverence to revenge, from worship to >> war, from hatred of armed enemies to hatred of unarmed innocents": >> http://odeo.com/audio/17889043/view >> >> The good Reverend's conclusion: this is the time for self examination >> and social transformation, a time to be grateful that the lord has >> given us another chance. 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URL: From futurenotwritten at yahoo.com Tue May 6 16:12:04 2008 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com (Jay Becker) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 13:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Moyers: "Beware the Terrible Simplifiers" on Rev Wright Message-ID: <464490.57987.qm@web33506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 'Beware the Terrible Simplifiers' By Bill Moyers Bill Moyers Journal May 3, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvnMK1d9xE0 I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam: 'Who's telling the truth over there?' 'Everyone,' he said. 'Everyone sees what's happening through the lens of their own experience.' That's how people see Jeremiah Wright. In my conversation with him and in his dramatic public appearances since, he revealed himself to be far more complex than the sound bites that propelled him onto the public stage. More than 2,000 people have written me about him, and their opinions vary widely. Some sting: 'Jeremiah Wright is nothing more than a race-hustling, American- hating radical,' one of my viewers wrote. Another called him a 'nut case.' Many more were sympathetic to him. Many asked for some rational explanation for Wright's transition from reasonable conversation to the shocking anger they saw at the National Press Club. A psychologist might pull back some of the layers and see this complicated man more clearly, but I'm not a psychologist. Many black preachers I've known-scholarly, smart, and gentle in person-uncorked fire and brimstone in the pulpit. Of course, I've known many white preachers like that, too. But where I grew up in the South, before the civil rights movement, the pulpit was a safe place for black men to express anger for which they would have been punished anywhere else. A safe place for the fierce thunder of dignity denied, justice delayed. I think I would have been angry if my ancestors had been transported thousands of miles in the hellish hole of a slave ship, then sold at auction, humiliated, whipped, and lynched. Or if my great-great-great grandfather had been but three-fifths of a person in a Constitution that proclaimed: 'We, the people.' Or if my own parents had been subjected to the racial vitriol of Jim Crow, Strom Thurmond, Bull Conner, and Jesse Helms. Even so, the anger of black preachers I've known and heard and reported on was, for them, very personal and cathartic. That's not how Jeremiah Wright came across in those sound bites or in his defiant performances since my interview. What white America is hearing in his most inflammatory words is an attack on the America they cherish and that many of their sons have died for in battle - forgetting that black Americans have fought and bled beside them, and that Wright himself has a record of honored service in the Navy. Hardly anyone took the 'chickens come home to roost' remark to convey the message that intervention in the political battles of other nations is sure to bring retaliation in some form, which is not to justify the particular savagery of 9/11 but to understand that actions have consequences. My friend Bernard Weisberger, the historian, says, yes, people are understandably seething with indignation over Wright's absurd charge that the United States deliberately brought an HIV epidemic into being. But it is a fact, he says, that within living memory the U.S. public health service conducted a study that deliberately deceived black men with syphilis into believing that they were being treated while actually letting them die for the sake of a scientific test. Does this excuse Wright's anger? His exaggerations or distortions? You'll have to decide for yourself, but at least it helps me to understand the why of them. In this multimedia age the pulpit isn't only available on Sunday mornings. There's round the clock media - the beast whose hunger is never satisfied, especially for the fast food with emotional content. So the preacher starts with rational discussion and after much prodding throws more and more gasoline on the fire that will eventually consume everything it touches. He had help - people who, for their own reasons, set out to conflate the man in the pulpit who wasn't running for president with the man in the pew who was. Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the war-mongering, Catholic- bashing Texas preacher, who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins. But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee's delusions or thinks AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right. After 9/11, Jerry Falwell said the attack was God's judgment on America for having been driven out of our schools and the public square, but when McCain goes after the endorsement of the preacher he once condemned as an agent of intolerance, the press gives him a pass. Jon Stewart recently played tape from the Nixon White House in which Billy Graham talks in the Oval Office about how he has friends who are Jewish, but he knows in his heart that they are undermining America. This is crazy and wrong -- white preachers are given leeway in politics that others aren't. Which means it is all about race, isn't it? Wright's offensive opinions and inflammatory appearances are judged differently. He doesn't fire a shot in anger, put a noose around anyone's neck, call for insurrection, or plant a bomb in a church with children in Sunday school. What he does is to speak his mind in a language and style that unsettles some people, and says some things so outlandish and ill-advised that he finally leaves Obama no choice but to end their friendship. We're often exposed to the corroding acid of the politics of personal destruction, but I've never seen anything like this - this wrenching break between pastor and parishioner played out right in front of our eyes. Both men no doubt will carry the grief to their graves. All the rest of us should hang our heads in shame for letting it come to this in America, where the gluttony of the non-stop media grinder consumes us all and prevents an honest conversation on race. It is the price we are paying for failing to heed the great historian Jacob Burckhardt, who said, 'beware the terrible simplifiers.' Bill Moyers is managing editor of the weekly public affairs program "Bill Moyers Journal," which airs Friday night on PBS. Check local airtimes or comment at The Moyers Blog at www.pbs.org/moyers. The video for this essay can be found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvnMK1d9xE0 Declare It Now! Wear Orange! Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes & Crimes against Humanity! --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Tue May 6 19:14:45 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:14:45 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] [Fwd: Proof the Media is happy to be a propaganda machine] Message-ID: <4820E665.8000504@thetwofacesofmoney.com> Below is a timely, very good email from a friend. All four links are related to the same story of "dissident" military brass blatantly criticizing Rummy. The last one is about "L'Infamie" campaigns. I also think that Phil Donahue's new documentary Body of War also is instructive as to how the propaganda machine controls the message and our perception of the facts. gerip -------- Original Message -------- On April 10, 2008 the/ New York Times/ exposed the Pentagon's domestic propaganda program involving retired generals and, still, not a single major news network has even mentioned the story, let alone responded to the numerous questions surrounding their own behavior. How the Pentagon Spreads its message: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/20/washington/20080419_RUMSFELD.html# Brian Williams "response" http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/30/williams/index.html TV networks Mum on story: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003796717 Smear campaign (L'Infamie) against obstreperous Generals: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/opinion/26sat2.html?ref=opinion Best Regards, *Dan* From Walterb306 at cs.com Tue May 6 19:21:08 2008 From: Walterb306 at cs.com (Walterb306 at cs.com) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:21:08 EDT Subject: [CitizensTruth] ARTICLE - Message-ID: All, Preparations underway. Yahoo.com lets out plans. Can we connect the dots? Beverley Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_he_me/pandemic_rationing_care_3& printer=1;_ylt=AhZI6I5z4FNzC2UvxVysWA9a24cA By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical WriterMon May 5, 7:35 AM ET Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. Now, an influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn't be treated. They include the very elderly, seriously hurt trauma victims, severely burned patients and those with severe dementia. The suggested list was compiled by a task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint for hospitals "so that everybody will be thinking in the same way" when pandemic flu or another widespread health care disaster hits, said Dr. Asha Devereaux. She is a critical care specialist in San Diego and lead writer of the task force report. The idea is to try to make sure that scarce resources ? including ventilators, medicine and doctors and nurses ? are used in a uniform, objective way, task force members said. Their recommendations appear in a report appearing Monday in the May edition of Chest, the medical journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. "If a mass casualty critical care event were to occur tomorrow, many people with clinical conditions that are survivable under usual health care system conditions may have to forgo life-sustaining interventions owing to deficiencies in supply or staffing," the report states. To prepare, hospitals should designate a triage team with the Godlike task of deciding who will and who won't get lifesaving care, the task force wrote. Those out of luck are the people at high risk of death and a slim chance of long-term survival. But the recommendations get much more specific, and include: _People older than 85. _Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings. _Severely burned patients older than 60. _Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced Alzheimer's disease. _Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes. Dr. Kevin Yeskey, director of the preparedness and emergency operations office at the Department of Health and Human Services, was on the task force. He said the report would be among many the agency reviews as part of preparedness efforts. Public health law expert Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University called the report an important initiative but also "a political minefield and a legal minefield." The recommendations would probably violate federal laws against age discrimination and disability discrimination, said Gostin, who was not on the task force. If followed to a tee, such rules could exclude care for the poorest, most disadvantaged citizens who suffer disproportionately from chronic disease and disability, he said. While health care rationing will be necessary in a mass disaster, "there are some real ethical concerns here." James Bentley, a senior vice president at American Hospital Association, said the report will give guidance to hospitals in shaping their own preparedness plans even if they don't follow all the suggestions. He said the proposals resemble a battlefield approach in which limited health care resources are reserved for those most likely to survive. Bentley said it's not the first time this type of approach has been recommended for a catastrophic pandemic, but that "this is the most detailed one I have seen from a professional group." While the notion of rationing health care is unpleasant, the report could help the public understand that it will be necessary, Bentley said. Devereaux said compiling the list "was emotionally difficult for everyone." That's partly because members believe it's just a matter of time before such a health care disaster hits, she said. "You never know," Devereaux said. "SARS took a lot of folks by surprise. We didn't even know it existed." ___ On the Net: CHEST: http://www.chestjournal.org U.S. Govt.: http://www.pandemicflu.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Walterb306 at cs.com Tue May 6 19:44:24 2008 From: Walterb306 at cs.com (Walterb306 at cs.com) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:44:24 EDT Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reverend Wright tells too much truth for Obama andthe est... Message-ID: All, The way I hear it, from someone who actually watched the entire Bill Moyers interview with Rev. Wright a week or so ago, Wright came across as sane, committed and a real patriot. He did not come across as hysterical, fanatical, or out to get even with Obama. And apparently Bill Moyers was quite impressed. In other words, the corporatist media is skewing the information and our perceptions. OK, we pretty much knew that, but it is important to realize that progressives can be pulled along. One question is why the corporatist media is deliberately prolonging this controversy. Some of the reasons are obvious, some may be deeper, darker, and, as yet, unknown to us. 1. Do a "swiftboating" on Obama and pull him down. Direct the nomination to Clinton, who has been termed a neo-con herself and whose hawkish comments, downright lies, and Rovian campaign has turned off a lot of past supporters, and who would probably lose in November. Remember, according to some estimates, virtually half the country detests her. McBush would win and we would have a prolonged occupation and a lot of elite crony corporate types and financeers would end up consolidating even more wealth 2. Prolong the issue for the sensationalist aspect, i.e., purely exploitative 3. Set up a long-term division in the Democratic Party to ensure a right-wing, neo-con dominance for a long time into the future 4. Use the long-term neo-con dominance to further weaken the progressive wing, erode civil liberties, widen the gulf between rich and poor, and decimate the middle class 5. Create an attitude of apathy and uncertainty about what is really going on. Demoralize the population and make takeover easier for the elites, allowing the elites to put into place the plans they have been cooking up with little resistance 6. ... How much these tactics work, if these are indeed some of the goals depends in part at least on how much we fall for their ploy. We need to find ways to get the facts out to more people and to keep from being drawn into their traps ourselves. We can't allow the corporatist media to set the terms of discussion. We need to find ways to be the media. Beverley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hal at drxyzzy.org Tue May 6 23:24:12 2008 From: hal at drxyzzy.org (Hal Snyder) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 22:24:12 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] patriotism in Japan's schools Message-ID: <2B9CDFEE-B942-4870-9DE6-A2B21D2732C3@drxyzzy.org> There was a public screening of the Japanese documentary, "Against Coercion", in Arlington Heights on Saturday. The one-hour film was completed in 2006. It follows a small core of teachers in the Tokyo school system who oppose restoring the practice of playing the national anthem (Kimigayo) and raising the flag (Hinomaru) at school functions. These teachers do not want a return to the militarism that brought the devastation of World War II. They express their dissent by sitting and refusing to sing during the raising of the flag and playing of the anthem. In return they face suspension and loss of livelihood. As someone who taught full time for several years, I was deeply moved to see the commitment of the teachers to the students and students' freedom to choose allegiance and values for themselves. In the words of NEZU Kimiko, a teacher for 36 years, I have been thinking for 36 years ever since I became teacher that it is our important duty as teachers to tell students the facts and truth and to appear as fighting teachers before them. As the situation has become severer, I have come to sense keenly it's the importance of my belief. Just imagine my surprise and joy when I met them who share a common ideal. It is beyond expression. Our counter-offensive is inevitable and necessary as the governments and corporations in the US and Japan together squeeze and throw away people as working tools for their greedy and selfish interest. Let us develop actions to refuse cooperation in war through strengthening solidarity among teachers. I am determined to carry on struggle against unjust things together with you, rallying here. These days in the US, much is made of whether a candidate wears a flag pin or not. Much is made of ritual deference to national symbols. "Against Coercion" made me ask myself what it would mean not to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, or stand when the Star Spangled Banner is played. Hal You can see Against Coercion on Google Video. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8192232362666209686 Here is a list of resources for resisting against militarism, globalization, and privatization, including the quote from Nezu- sensei above. http://www.militaryfreeschools.org/Intl.htm And here is a blogger's report from a screening of the film in Canada. http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.com/2007/11/film-and-discussion- against-coercion.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hal at drxyzzy.org Wed May 7 16:32:38 2008 From: hal at drxyzzy.org (Hal Snyder) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:32:38 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Reminder: Blue Gold: World Water Wars this Friday in Palatine Message-ID: This Friday we will be showing a pre-release edit of Sam Bozzo's new fresh water documentary, "Blue Gold - World Water Wars". Coverage of the subject is global, but here is a section about Great Lakes issues including Nestle's efforts to export water from the region. Bring your questions - and answers - for the discussion after the film. Hal Event: free public screening of "Blue Gold: World Water Wars" Date: Friday, May 9, 7:00 P.M. Place: Atherton Hall, Countryside Church Unitarian Universalist 1025 N. Smith Rd, Palatine IL Background information: http://citizenstruth.info/water.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Thu May 8 14:06:16 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:06:16 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: A manual on How to use Bank Credit Serving as Money to control the masses Message-ID: <48234118.90000@thetwofacesofmoney.com> Hi all, In the hopes that this will help us all to more readily see why it is that money creation underlies virtually all other social and political issues, I thought it might be useful, and serve as a good shortcut, to share key portions of the Silent Weapons document referred to in the subject line. Since the entire document is very long and redundant at times, confusing at others, I have taken the time to provide below the most salient and illuminating excerpts with a link to the full text. Note that this is one of many elite ?blueprints? for what might be called the New World Order, but this one in particular meticulously details the manner in which control of the masses is to be obtained through control of money creation. It also explains how we are to be methodically turned into slaves via our money system, and it alludes to how profit is obtained through unpayable interest due on bank credit serving as money. (Not made clear is the fact that money serving as credit was developed by the gold smiths/moneychangers some 4000 years ago in ancient Babylonia when they began lending out more gold receipts than they had gold.) For those who have read my book http://thetwofacesofmoney.com/, this document below may help flesh in more details, for those who haven't The Two Faces of Money is a more "conventional" place to start. In any case, as you read through this document, keep in mind that during the 1930s a group of activists led by banker and former Senator Robert Owen (co-sponsor of the Fed Act) along with economist Gertrude Coogan and others were spearheading a movement to install Constitutional, debt "free" money. Perhaps the document below was created to curtail that and all similar movements which had sprung up around the world. BTW, as mentioned, many similar "blueprints" exist. They include Georgetown Professor Caroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope, as well as the more controversial Report from Iron Mountain, and the much older Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (as in Sion, the document is NOT Jewish.) SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS The following document, dated May 1979, was found on July 7, 1986, in an IBM copier that had been purchased at a surplus sale. It was marked Top Secret, and titled: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars:An introductory programming manual. Operations Research Technical Manual TM-SW7905.1 which was reprinted in "Behold a Pale Horse", Milton William Cooper, starting on pg 36. Full document can also be read here: http://phoenix.akasha.de/~aton/swfqw.html Milton William Cooper was a former Navel Intelligence Officer with the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, and with a 38 level above top secret clearance, read the same report in Navel Intelligence Majority Twelve file - it was listed as compiled by the Bilderberg Group. In his book Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper says that he personally read Top Secret documents that "explained that 'Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars' is the doctrine adopted by the Policy Committee of the Bilderberg Group during its first known meeting in 1954. A copy found in 1969 was in the possession of Naval Intelligence." EXCERPTS: POLITICAL INTRODUCTION In 1954 it was well recognized by those in positions of authority that it was only a matter of time, only a few decades, before the general public would be able to grasp and upset the cradle of power, for the very elements of the new silent-weapon technology were as accessible for a public utopia as they were for providing a private utopia. The issue of primary concern, that of dominance, revolved around the subject of the energy sciences. ENERGY Energy is recognized as the key to all activity on earth. Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy. Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics. Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science. And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept ignorant of the methodology of the bookkeeping. All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary? . . . Consequently, in the interest of future world order, peace, and tranquility, it was decided to privately wage a quiet war against the American public with an ultimate objective of permanently shifting the natural and social energy (wealth) of the undisciplined and irresponsible many into the hands of the self-disciplined, responsible, and worthy few. In order to implement this objective, it was necessary to create, secure, and apply new weapons which, as it turned out, were a class of weapons so subtle and sophisticated in their principle of operation and public appearance as to earn for themselves the name "silent weapons." In conclusion, the objective of economic research, as conducted by the magnates of capital (banking) and the industries of commodities (goods) and services, is the establishment of an economy which is totally predictable and manipulatable. In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class elements of the society must be brought under total control, i.e., must be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke and long-term social duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such conformity, the lower-class family unit must be disintegrated by a process of increasing preoccupation of the parents and the establishment of government-operated day-care centers for the occupationally orphaned children. The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintaining some measure of social order, peace, and tranquility for the ruling upper class. . . . . THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION "Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws." Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743 ? 1812) Today's silent weapons technology is an outgrowth of a simple idea discovered, succinctly expressed, and effectively applied by the quoted Mr. Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mr. Rothschild discovered the missing passive component of economic theory known as economic inductance. He, of course, did not think of his discovery in these 20th-century terms, and, to be sure, mathematical analysis had to wait for the Second Industrial Revolution, the rise of the theory of mechanics and electronics, and finally, the invention of the electronic computer before it could be effectively applied in the control of the world economy. . . . . MR. ROTHSCHILD'S ENERGY DISCOVERY What Mr. Rothschild had discovered was the basic principle of power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics. That principle is "when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you." Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan accounts had the required appearance of power that could be used to induce people (inductance, with people corresponding to a magnetic field) into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise of greater wealth (instead of real compensation). They would put up real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory notes. Mr. Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had backing for, so long as he had someone's stock of gold as a persuader to show to his customers. Mr. Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individuals and to governments. These would create overconfidence. Then he would make money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then repeated. These pressures could be used to ignite a war. Then he would control the availability of currency to determine who would win the war. That government which agreed to give him control of its economic system got his support. Collection of debts was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy of the debtor. The profit derived from this economic methodology made Mr. Rothschild all the more able to extend his wealth. He found that the public greed would allow currency to be printed by government order beyond the limits (inflation) of backing in precious metal or the production of goods and services (gross national product, GNP). . . . APPARENT CAPITAL AS "PAPER" INDUCTOR In this structure, credit, presented as a pure element called "currency," has the appearance of capital, but is, in fact, negative capital. Hence, it has the appearance of service, but is, in fact, indebtedness or debt. It is therefore an economic inductance instead of an economic capacitance, and if balanced in no other way, will be balanced in no other way, will be balanced by the negation of population (war, genocide). The total goods and services represent real capital called the gross national product, and currency may be printed up to this level and still represent economic capacitance; but currency printed beyond this level is subtractive, represents the introduction of economic inductance, and constitutes notes of indebtedness. War is therefore the balancing of the system by killing the true creditors (the public which we have taught to exchange true value for inflated currency) and falling back on whatever is left of the resources of nature and regeneration of those resources. Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency gave him the power to rearrange the economic structure to his own advantage, to shift economic inductance to those economic positions which would encourage the greatest economic instability and oscillation. The final key to economic control had to wait until there was sufficient data and high-speed computing equipment to keep close watch on the economic oscillations created by price shocking and excess paper energy credits -- paper inductance/inflation. . . . THE ECONOMIC MODEL ...The Harvard Economic Research Project (1948-) was an extension of World War II Operations Research. Its purpose was to discover the science of controlling an economy: at first the American economy, and then the world economy. It was felt that with sufficient mathematical foundation and data, it would be nearly as easy to predict and control the trend of an economy as to predict and control the trajectory of a projectile. Such has proven to be the case. Moreover, the economy has been transformed into a guided missile on target. The immediate aim of the Harvard project was to discover the economic structure, what forces change that structure, how the behavior of the structure can be predicted, and how it can be manipulated. What was needed was a well-organized knowledge of the mathematical structures and interrelationships of investment, production, distribution, and consumption. To make a short story of it all, it was discovered that an economy obeyed the same laws as electricity and that all of the mathematical theory and practical and computer know-how developed for the electronic field could be directly applied in the study of economics. This discovery was not openly declared, and its more subtle implications were and are kept a closely guarded secret, for example that in an economic model, human life is measured in dollars, and that the electric spark generated when opening a switch connected to an active inductor is mathematically analogous to the initiation of a war. . . . . TABLE OF STRATEGIES Do this: To get this: Keep the public ignorant Less public organization Maintain access to control points for feedback Required reaction to outputs (prices, sales) Create preoccupation Lower defenses Attack the family unit Control of the education of the young Give less cash and more credit and doles More self-indulgence and more data Attack the privacy of the church Destroy faith in this sort of government Social conformity Computer programming simplicity Minimize the tax protest Maximum economic data, minimum enforcement problems Stabilize the consent Simplicity coefficients Tighten control of variables Simpler computer input data -- greater predictability Establish boundary conditions Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and difference equations Proper timing Less data shift and blurring Maximize control Minimum resistance to control Collapse of currency Destroy the faith of the American people in each other. DIVERSION, THE PRIMARY STRATEGY Experience has proven that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of basic systems principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand. This is achieved by: (1) disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity. (2) engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by: (a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of a constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media -- especially the T.V. and the newspapers. (b) giving them what they desire -- in excess -- "junk food for thought" -- and depriving them of what they really need. (3) rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities. These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology. The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions. DIVERSION SUMMARY Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance. Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history. Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level. Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals. CONSENT, THE PRIMARY VICTORY A silent weapon system operates upon data obtained from a docile public by legal (but not always lawful) force. Much information is made available to silent weapon systems programmers through the Internal Revenue Service. (See Studies in the Structure of the American Economy for an I.R.S. source list.) This information consists of the enforced delivery of well-organized data contained in federal and state tax forms collected, assembled, and submitted by slave labor provided by taxpayers and employers. Furthermore, the number of such forms submitted to the I.R.S. is a useful indicator of public consent, an important factor in strategic decision making. Other data sources are given in the Short List of Inputs. Consent Coefficients -- numerical feedback indicating victory status. Psychological basis: When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay income tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service from the government. For those of you who are interested in going down yet another rabbit hole, I have compiled a list of sources and resources, including those from Cooper, about the IRS and the Income tax. Please email me separately if you would like me to forward this list to you. gerip From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Thu May 8 14:20:51 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:20:51 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Cusack slams corporate media, talks up new movie 'War, Inc.' in wide-ranging interview Message-ID: <48234483.2040202@mailbag.com> *Cusack slams corporate media, talks up new movie 'War, Inc.' in wide-ranging interview* *Larisa Alexandrovna *Published: Wednesday May 7, 2008 | StumbleUpon Print This Email This /Want to attend a screening of War, Inc. for free with two Raw Story writers? Want John Cusack to see your talent as a limerick writer? See details at the end of the interview./ Actor, writer, director John Cusack has a lot to say about the Iraq war and the current state of US politics. Although he frequently uses such forums as the /Huffington Post/ to express his criticism of the Bush administration, in his new film, /War Inc. ,/ he really pulls out all the stops to shine a damningly aggressive light on the privatization of war. Cusack sat down with Raw Story's Larisa Alexandrovna to discuss the film, his political views and his take on the state of mainstream media, which he feels has failed in its role as the public watchdog. "I think in a way you can almost respect the criminals more than the enablers in some sick way -- I mean, I think what the Bush administration has done is criminal, should be treated as a crime, but the idea that people who call themselves journalists let these lies go on unchecked and endorsed them time and time again is [unpardonable]," Cusack said. "Don't get me wrong, I think great journalism is heroic, I am in awe of great journalists." The journalists Cusack goes on to praise are a small contingent -- including the legendary Bill Moyers, Naomi Klein, Sy Hersh and Keith Olbermann. Cusack also credits alternative press outlets like Raw Story and blogs like Crooks and Liars with keeping the public informed. /War, Inc./ is not subtle as far as satire goes, but it is precisely the sledgehammer hit -- the "shock" of the totally outlandish and suffocating all-over-the-place bombing of the viewer's senses -- that makes the film a truly onomatopoeic visual to the audacious crimes it is ridiculing on screen. The plot revolves around a corporate hit-man, Brand Hauser (Cusack), who is hired by a corrupt US defense contractor called Tamerlane to assassinate the oil minister of the fictional Middle Eastern country of Turaqistan, which has been invaded by the United States. Tamerlane's CEO is a former United States Vice President, played brilliantly by Dan Aykroyd and obviously based on the current real life Vice President and former Halliburton CEO, Dick Cheney. Asked what Cusack would say to Vice President Dick Cheney if he had the opportunity, Cusack wisecracks, "You have the right to remain silent." Cusack is far more serious on the topic of torture and violations of the Geneva Conventions by Bush administration officials. "You know, Nuremberg [the post World War II Nuremberg trials of the leaders and enablers of Nazi Germany] said that an illegal invasion of a sovereign country in a war of aggression is a supreme war crime." Cusack wonders why no one in the press has made this a bigger issue and why Democrats in Congress have not made it a priority. 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On May 8, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Daniel Stafford wrote: > Cusack slams corporate media, talks up new movie 'War, Inc.' in > wide-ranging interview > Larisa Alexandrovna > Published: Wednesday May 7, 2008Want to attend a screening of War, > Inc. for free with two Raw Story writers? Want John Cusack to see > your talent as a limerick writer? See details at the end of the > interview. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Fri May 9 17:42:41 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 16:42:41 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] =?windows-1252?q?Houses_Unholy=85?= Message-ID: <4824C551.2040200@mailbag.com> A little post-it from May, 2007: Houses Unholy? Double-dipping mortgage Queens, Sucking energy sight-unseen, Death traps down in New Orleans, A self-imposed case of ball-n-chains, Phosphorus fountain spewing into the Gulf until the fish all gel, Artisan crafting a red-tide Hell, All due to demand for that elegant classic design, We can?t seem to trip beyond the status of Grandpa?s time, Architects - the Energy Hog loves your sign, I?m desperately trying selling mine, Of solar panels and hot water I never found the time, Still working off toeing Com Ed?s line, Sucking on the Nicor straw like a buzz saw, Chewing up my wallet in a Home Depot maw, Created by a now-enriched demon spawn, At least I refused chemicals to poison up the lawn, A sweet little picture by the online for-sale sign, God please help me ? it?ll again be moving time, Sweep and mop and paint and hammer, If we don?t pay up it?s the Poor Man?s slammer, And we laugh at the ?fools? begging in the streets, While these houses unholy commit a third of global warming deeds, So kill some more oceans with that brand-new key, Turn up the lights and feed the fish more mercury, I?m making save-me-from-the-evil-eye signs, Wishing I?d hired a master architect with a really green design, But at least the sheets are washed and we?re all appropriate, Fully decked out in the stealth commission of Halloween, Oh ? my lord ? there?s a hole in the screen, Shouldn?t have bought it sight un-seen, But our household devotion, Is sinking island nations under the ocean, Holy oblivious, Batman, we're aggregate and solely, Idiots chained to houses unholy. 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See: David Sirota Chronicles the Growing Populist Revolt Against Wall Street and Corporate Control of America The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington (Hardcover) -- Advance Order, Released on or About May 27th David Sirota . See www.buzzflash.com for full review. Beverley GEORGE WASHINGTON?S BLOG Wednesday, May 7, 2008 http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/05/neocons-admit-that-war-on-terror -was.html Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the so-called War on Terror is a hoax. In fact, starting right after 9/11 -- at the latest -- the goal has always been to create "regime change" and instability in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Lebanon so as to protect Israel. And the goal was never really to destroy Al Qaeda. As reported in a new article in Asia Times: Three weeks after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then-under secretary of defense for policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions. Feith's account further indicates that this aggressive aim of remaking the map of the Middle East by military force and the threat of force was supported explicitly by the country's top military leaders. Feith's book, War and Decision , released last month, provides excerpts of the paper Rumsfeld sent to President George W Bush on September 30, 2001, calling for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network but on the aim of establishing "new regimes" in a series of states... *** General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]. *** When this writer asked Feith . . . which of the six regimes on the Clark list were included in the Rumsfeld paper, he replied, "All of them." *** The Defense Department guidance document made it clear that US military aims in regard to those states would go well beyond any ties to terrorism. The document said the Defense Department would also seek to isolate and weaken those states and to "disrupt, damage or destroy" their military capacities - not necessarily limited to weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Where does Israel come in? Well, the Asia Times article continues: Rumsfeld's paper was given to the White House only two weeks after Bush had approved a US military operation in Afghanistan directed against bin Laden and the Taliban regime. Despite that decision, Rumsfeld's proposal called explicitly for postponing indefinitely US airstrikes and the use of ground forces in support of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in order to try to catch bin Laden. Instead, the Rumsfeld paper argued that the US should target states that had supported anti-Israel forces such as Hezbollah and Hamas. *** After the bombing of two US embassies in East Africa [in 1988] by al-Qaeda operatives, State Department counter-terrorism official Michael Sheehan proposed supporting the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan against bin Laden's sponsor, the Taliban regime. However, senior US military leaders "refused to consider it", according to a 2004 account by Richard H Shultz, Junior, a military specialist at Tufts University. A senior officer on the Joint Staff told State Department counter-terrorism director Sheehan he had heard terrorist strikes characterized more than once by colleagues as a "small price to pay for being a superpower". And if "terrorist strikes" were a "small price to pay for being a superpower"- and that is the reason that the U.S. government refused to disrupt the alleged planners of the 9/11 attacks - doesn't that add weight to the claim that the U.S. government intentionally allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur? In other words, doesn't this statement by a senior officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tend to prove that 9/11 was intentionally allowed to occur as the "New Pearl Harbor" which would allow America to act like "a superpower" and re-make the Middle East in its own (and Israel's) image? This is not an unreasonable question, especially given that Feith, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and most of the other key architects of the "war on terror" were part of the Project for a New American Century and its plea for a "New Pearl Harbor" to justify expansion of American militarism and regime change in the Middle East. And remember that many of the key members of PNAC and architects of the "war on terror" had previously created the "Clean Break" strategy for Israel, which called for a policy of war and regime change against Israel's enemies. The war on terror was never intended to be about fighting terrorism. As even Newsweek has now admitted, the war on terror is a hoax. Posted by George Washington at 7:39 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hal at drxyzzy.org Sat May 10 20:00:02 2008 From: hal at drxyzzy.org (Hal Snyder) Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:00:02 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] what we do matters Message-ID: This note is from a personal friend, posted with her permission. I think every interaction we have with another being is an opportunity for positive change, whether explicit issues-based dialogue takes place or not. In fact, practicing at this part can help a lot when it comes to the issues talk. Hal This I believe?What You Do Matters By Sharon Wiseman Seven years ago, my husband, Dan underwent grueling treatment for Stage IV neck cancer. The treatment involved five weeks in the hospital with one week between hospital stays. In the hospital, he received chemo 24 hours a day and radiation treatments, on the neck, twice a day. In addition, there were extra weeks, in the hospital, due to infections, dehydration and a blood clot in the lung. University of Chicago Hospital was Dan?s ?home away from home? for his treatment. We were fortunate to live in the Chicago area, so daily visits, with him hospitalized, were possible. The hospital encouraged drivers to use the valet parking which was made affordable. The parking around the hospital was very difficult. Prior to Dan?s stay, in the hospital, he went once a week for six weeks for chemo induction. Needless to say, there were a lot of trips to the University of Chicago Hospital. And we used the valet parking service each time. Dan and I noticed and remarked how we both hoped we would get a certain valet parker. He was always so nice. The others were nice, as well, but we felt pulled to this person. During a very difficult hospital week for Dan, I was leaving the hospital late one evening. Our favorite valet parker brought the car to me. I told him how both Dan and I hoped he would be the one to take our car or bring it to us. I asked what was it that made what he did so different from the others. He told me he used to look at his work- valet parking cars, at the hospital, ? as ?just a job.? Then, his young son became ill. He said he realized that what he was experiencing, then, was what so many go through who are patients or who have loved ones, in the hospital. He said when his son was, in the hospital, and so ill, he felt like he was walking around without his skin. He felt totally exposed to everything and everyone he came into contact with. He felt supersensitive to anything, the human touch, tenderness, criticism, slights, etc. His son recovered and he remembered his experience when he returned to valet parking cars, at the hospital. He said he realized now that he was part of the ?healing team? at the hospital. He added that people are hurting so much who come to the hospital as patients or as loved ones of patients. And everyone these people come into contact with, at the hospital, can help to ease their pain. How he treats the people who come to him to take or bring their cars to them, matters. I have never forgotten this exchange. Sadly, I don?t remember his name. Maybe that is part of the numbness that comes from living through extreme situations. My husband did survive, in fact, he is thriving. What I do try to remember is that we are all part of something larger than ourselves. And that actions and gestures of kindness and healing do make a difference in people?s lives. The man is right. He is part of the ?healing team.? How he does his job matters ? it affects people. It affected me. It affected my husband. It still affects me. He chose to help. It made a difference. Who will I be in contact with today? How will I do my job? How will I affect others? It makes a difference. I choose to be part of the ?healing team? too. I don?t work in healthcare. I work in a library. I work behind the scenes to provide training and development for staff. I come into contact with a lot of people. How I do my job matters. It affects people. I choose to help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Sun May 11 17:05:21 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:05:21 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear Message-ID: <48275F91.2010003@mailbag.com> Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear $4-a-gallon gasoline knocking bicycle sales, repairs into a higher gear, dealers say JAMES MacPHERSON AP News May 11, 2008 12:07 EST Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business --- if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers --- or buying new ones --- to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say. "Everyone that comes in the shop is talking about the gas prices," said Barry Dahl, who opened Barry's Bikes in Bismarck in April. He sold more than 50 bicycles in the first month, double the projections in his business plan. Teacher Joyce McCusker of Herndon, Va., owns a bicycle for the first time in years. She bought it last month and uses it to make the eight-mile trip home from work. A friend drives her pickup to take McCusker's daughter home from school. "I'm still using fossil fuel," she said. "In two years, my goal is to ride both ways, every day through the year." About 18 million bicycles have been sold annually in the U.S. over the past few years, accounting for about $6 billion in annual sales, said Fred Clements, executive director the National Bicycle Dealers Association in Costa Mesa, Calif. Bicycle shops across the country are reporting strong sales so far this year, and more people are bringing in bikes that have been idled for years, he said. "People are riding bicycles a lot more often, and it's due to a mixture of things but escalating gas prices is one of them," said Bill Nesper, spokesman for the Washington. D.C.-based League of American Bicyclists. "We're seeing a spike in the number of calls we're getting from people wanting tips on bicycle commuting," he said. The League of American Bicyclists is promoting Bike-to-Work Week this week and Bike-to-Work Day on May 16. Nesper said he expects a record number of people will be pedaling this year. There's almost nowhere for the numbers to go but up: The group says less than one-half of 1 percent of Americans ride a bike to work. Mark Krenz, 48, is giving it a try. The Bismarck auto-parts store manager recently spent $750 on the 24-speed bike and is building up his mileage to prepare for his hilly commute. "In this business, everybody is constantly talking about how to save gas," Krenz said. "I bought a bike because I figure it's a good way to save money, get in shape and save wear and tear on my pickup." Rocky Schell, owner of Val's Cycle in Minot, said this may be one of the best years in the history of the shop, started by his father in 1960. It's seeing a spike in the number of tuneups and repairs, which had been declining for the past 15 years. Schell said he's also selling lots of bike trailers designed to haul children --- customers are using them for groceries instead. A big percentage of Schell's customers haven't been on a bike in decades. "I'm seeing more people my age or older coming in," said Schell, 51. "The college-age kids to 30-year-olds aren't the ones coming in. They still want to drive." Dahl, the Bismarck bike shop owner, said he's worked several on "dusty and rusty" bicycles that hadn't been ridden in at least 25 years. He said many families have told him that that they intend to go on a bicycle tour this summer instead of driving somewhere for vacation. "Millions of people have bicycles hanging in the garage and they're getting them down and riding them," said Rebecca Anderson, advocacy director for Trek Bicycle Corp. "People are looking at the bicycle as more than just a toy." The Waterloo, Wis.-based company last year started a program called One World, Two Wheels to promote bicycles for transportation and recreation. Anderson said that about 40 percent of trips by car are 2 miles or less --- "a habit for some people to get in a car and drive just a few blocks." Clive Greenberg, a salesman at Metro Bicycles in New York City, said spin cycling classes at health clubs, where people use stationary bikes for a workout, also are spurring bicycle sales. "It's pretty interesting, a good majority of middle-age people involved in that spinning craze at the gym used to come in and buy cycling shoes," he said. "Now they are getting on real bikes." Engineer Dale Heinert said he's been seeing more fellow bicycle commuters on his daily trek to work in downtown Bismarck. Heinert, 56, started cycling to work when the price of gas began skyrocketing --- in 1973. But that isn't the only reason for choosing pedal power: "It's a stress-reliever," he said. Steve Stelton, 47, of Bismarck, was inspired by Greg LeMond's 1986 Tour de France victory and has been commuting year-round ever since. He said he's physically fit because of it and has saved "a ton of money on gas." Stelton, a printer, doesn't let North Dakota's cold, windy weather slow him down. He said he's ridden to work on snow-covered roads when the wind chill temperature was 40-below zero. "If you waited for a bluebird day to ride to work in North Dakota," he said, "you'd never do it." *Source:* AP News -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From futurenotwritten at yahoo.com Mon May 12 14:31:51 2008 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com (Jay Becker) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] City Council Hearing on Iran Tuesday at 11:30! Message-ID: <941907.87362.qm@web33507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> This week, Bush is heading to Israel and the Middle East, while eyes (and military might) are trained on Iran. Right here in Chicago, the City Council will vote on a resolution opposing a US attack on Iran. On Tuesday, May 13, we hope to rivet attention and mobilize public opinion against this latest looming war crime with a series of experts testifying at City Hall in favor of this resolution: Douglass Cassel, Farrah Hassan, Stephen Kinzer, John Mearsheimer, Norma Claire Mozurri, and Scott Ritter. (See his analysis of the national significance of the Chicago resolution on the front page of www.Truthdig.com) Join us in all your orange outrage for the press conference at 10:30 am and the hearing at 11:30 am in council chambers on the 2nd Floor of Chicago City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St. Come during your lunch hour if you work in the Loop. For more information on the resolution, go to nowaroniran-chicago.org, and take the ?No Attack on Iran Pledge? at our national website (www.worldcantwait.org): No Attack on Iran Pledge We Pledge: No Attack on Iran! Bush and Cheney are committing war crimes in Iraq, We refuse to be silent. Bush and Cheney are readying another war on Iran, We refuse to be complicit. As people of conscience, we declare now: We will do everything possible to stop a war on Iran. We pledge to bring business as usual to a halt if the US bombs Iran. We will draw forward many others to act. We pledge our resistance now because the world cannot wait. Iraq - Get Out! Iran - Stay Out! Bush and Cheney - Drive Out! And if, despite massive opposition and unforeseeable disastrous consequences, the US launches an attack on Iran, join the Emergency Protest the day of/day after at 5 pm at FEDERAL PLAZA (Adams & Dearborn, in the Loop)! Declare It Now! Wear Orange! Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes & Crimes against Humanity! --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Bicycle and car production tracked each other closely in the mid-to-late 1960s, but bike output separated sharply from that of cars in 1970, beginning its steep climb to 105 million in 1988. Following a slowdown between 1989 and 2001, bike production has regained steam, increasing in each of the last six years. Much of the recent growth has been driven by the rise in electric, or ?e-bike? production, which has doubled since 2004 to 21 million units in 2007. Overall, since 1970, bicycle output has nearly quadrupled, while car production has roughly doubled. > > Promoting the bike as a clean and efficient alternative to the personal automobile is a practical way for cities to reduce traffic congestion and smog. To simultaneously confront those problems as well as climate change and an emerging obesity epidemic, government leaders and advocacy groups are working to bring cycling back to prominence in the urban transport mix. > > A number of European cities have set the standard for bicycle use and promotion, via pro-bike transportation and land use policies, as well as heavy funding for bicycle infrastructure and public education. In Copenhagen, for example, 36 percent of commuters bike to work... > > For entire text see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Bike/2008.htm > For data see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Bike/2008_data.htm > > > For an index of Earth Policy Institute resources related to Bicycles and Transportation see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Bike/index.htm > > And for more thoughts on ?Designing Cities for People? (not cars), see Chapter 10 of Lester Brown?s Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, at http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm. From r.gillam at comcast.net Mon May 12 15:53:55 2008 From: r.gillam at comcast.net (Ragen Gillam) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:53:55 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article Message-ID: <007c01c8b469$e91a7490$6501a8c0@ragen> This is a really good article about the role of psychopathy in our world, and what people of conscience must do to finally get the psychopaths out of power. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/beware-the-psychopath-my-son/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Mon May 12 18:20:12 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:20:12 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article In-Reply-To: <007c01c8b469$e91a7490$6501a8c0@ragen> References: <007c01c8b469$e91a7490$6501a8c0@ragen> Message-ID: Coincidentally, I've been working on a "Nature of Evil" piece -- shorter, simpler -- that goes hand-in-glove with this. I'll probably combine them, with credits of course, and send out soon! Maybe A LOT of people are finally getting this message??!! Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: Ragen Gillam To: Citizens Truth Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 2:53 PM Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article This is a really good article about the role of psychopathy in our world, and what people of conscience must do to finally get the psychopaths out of power. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/beware-the-psychopath-my-son/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CitizensTruth mailing list CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth website: http://citizenstruth.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The DV article is a major advance. Hal On May 12, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Connie Smith wrote: > Coincidentally, I've been working on a "Nature of Evil" piece -- > shorter, simpler -- that goes hand-in-glove with this. I'll > probably combine them, with credits of course, and send out soon! > Maybe A LOT of people are finally getting this message??!! > > Connie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ragen Gillam > To: Citizens Truth > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 2:53 PM > Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article > > This is a really good article about the role of psychopathy in our > world, and what people of conscience must do to finally get the > psychopaths out of power. > > > > > > http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/beware-the-psychopath-my-son/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garyfranchi at gmail.com Tue May 13 00:15:42 2008 From: garyfranchi at gmail.com (Gary Franchi) Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 23:15:42 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article In-Reply-To: References: <007c01c8b469$e91a7490$6501a8c0@ragen> Message-ID: <2c9e41bb0805122115r5b3e84e4x75963fba684cb734@mail.gmail.com> If anyone wants to contribute articles for print in Republic Magazine we're always looking for new and fresh content... our recent issues have generally been thematic, dealing with the Federal Reserve, IRS, and Microchiping, RFID, we have covered topics such as getting off the grid, alternative energy, 9/11 truth... we will be doing issues in the future on NAU and the "puppet masters"... we print about 30,000 per run and they go all over the country for activists to hand out to wake up the people... our graphic department is one of a kind... any way if you haven't seen it you can download all our back issues for free at http://www.restoretherepublic.com/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,47/Itemid,59/ or you can actually flip the pages of our digital online version at http://RepublicMagazines.com then click *"view magazines"* at the top... any way if you have some articles let me know at garyfranchi at gmail.com -G On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Hal Snyder wrote: > Ragen and Connie, > The Dissident Voice article is an excellent read. > > Talk about collective unconscious. I was mulling over the subject, too; > something like this: civilization is headed over a cliff. Some of us are > waking up and trying to alert our companions. But there are some people who > are doing their darndest to push the whole apparatus over. Many who brought > about the Bush presidency and continue to promote its most egregious > offenses come to mind, for example. > > It's important to recognize this behavior and understand what keeps > persons working at our common undoing. I don't think any analysis I have > seen so far - "illuminati", "ruling class", "neocons", "sociopaths", > "reptilians", "global banking cartel" - pulls it all together. The DV > article is a major advance. > > Hal > > On May 12, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Connie Smith wrote: > > Coincidentally, I've been working on a "Nature of Evil" piece -- shorter, > simpler -- that goes hand-in-glove with this. I'll probably combine them, > with credits of course, and send out soon! Maybe A LOT of people are > finally getting this message??!! > > Connie > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Ragen Gillam > *To:* Citizens Truth > *Sent:* Monday, May 12, 2008 2:53 PM > *Subject:* [CitizensTruth] Important Article > > This is a really good article about the role of psychopathy in our world, > and what people of conscience must do to finally get the psychopaths out of > power. > > > > > > http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/beware-the-psychopath-my-son/ > > > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From rmigalla at earthlink.net Tue May 13 06:15:21 2008 From: rmigalla at earthlink.net (Robin Migalla) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 05:15:21 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article Message-ID: <01C8B4B8.5ABBD320.rmigalla@earthlink.net> Hello Everyone, Thanks Ragen for sharing this article. It's wonderful! On this same note, here's a link to Fungi Perfecti by Paul Stamets (author of Mycelium Running and one of the speakers to be at the Chicago Green Festival this weekend): http://www.fungi.com/whatsnew/index.html If you scroll down and watch the Mycelial Magic short video, you may be impressed with how mycelia function. Personally, if you look closely at the structures that are really working well like the mycelia and the internet, you can see the model for how we can move forward - each individual doing their part, joining with other individuals in their locale, and creating a network where these small clusters of individuals and groups can communicate with one another. To me, it looks like we're forming an infrastructure that's finally coming of age. Cheers, Robin -----Original Message----- From: Hal Snyder [SMTP:hal at drxyzzy.org] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 18:05 To: Connie Smith Cc: Citizens Truth Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Important Article Ragen and Connie, The Dissident Voice article is an excellent read. Talk about collective unconscious. I was mulling over the subject, too; something like this: civilization is headed over a cliff. Some of us are waking up and trying to alert our companions. But there are some people who are doing their darndest to push the whole apparatus over. Many who brought about the Bush presidency and continue to promote its most egregious offenses come to mind, for example. It's important to recognize this behavior and understand what keeps persons working at our common undoing. I don't think any analysis I have seen so far - "illuminati", "ruling class", "neocons", "sociopaths", "reptilians", "global banking cartel" - pulls it all together. The DV article is a major advance. Hal On May 12, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Connie Smith wrote: > Coincidentally, I've been working on a "Nature of Evil" piece -- > shorter, simpler -- that goes hand-in-glove with this. I'll > probably combine them, with credits of course, and send out soon! > Maybe A LOT of people are finally getting this message??!! > > Connie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ragen Gillam > To: Citizens Truth > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 2:53 PM > Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article > > This is a really good article about the role of psychopathy in our > world, and what people of conscience must do to finally get the > psychopaths out of power. > > > > > > http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/beware-the-psychopath-my-son/ << File: ATT00035.htm >> << File: ATT00036.txt >> From welaware at merr.com Tue May 13 06:52:51 2008 From: welaware at merr.com (Kris Knight) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 05:52:51 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article In-Reply-To: <01C8B4B8.5ABBD320.rmigalla@earthlink.net> References: <01C8B4B8.5ABBD320.rmigalla@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <988B0570-8EE8-4EF2-8C88-9388BE5900D8@merr.com> Well, I haven't yet seen the video but am wonderfully amused and encouraged that we are being advised to use nature as a role model, especially the fungi, who will likely outlast us by eons... I am reading McTaggart's book THE INTENTION EXPERIMENT which also has some rather amazing findings in it re. collective focus found within nature that defies previous logic. Excellent book. To release any illusions that we will be taken care of by government is wisely spent energy at this point, methinks. Life sustaining "cells" of humans cooperating with nature and even defending nature so it can simply do what it does best, is all good but foreign to many. On May 13, 2008, at 5:15 AM, Robin Migalla wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Thanks Ragen for sharing this article. It's wonderful! > > On this same note, here's a link to Fungi Perfecti by Paul Stamets > (author > of Mycelium Running and one of the speakers to be at the Chicago Green > Festival this weekend): > > http://www.fungi.com/whatsnew/index.html > > If you scroll down and watch the Mycelial Magic short video, you may > be > impressed with how mycelia function. Personally, if you look > closely at > the structures that are really working well like the mycelia and the > internet, you can see the model for how we can move forward - each > individual doing their part, joining with other individuals in their > locale, and creating a network where these small clusters of > individuals > and groups can communicate with one another. To me, it looks like > we're > forming an infrastructure that's finally coming of age. > > Cheers, > Robin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hal Snyder [SMTP:hal at drxyzzy.org] > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 18:05 > To: Connie Smith > Cc: Citizens Truth > Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Important Article > > Ragen and Connie, > > The Dissident Voice article is an excellent read. > > Talk about collective unconscious. I was mulling over the subject, > too; something like this: civilization is headed over a cliff. Some > of us are waking up and trying to alert our companions. But there are > some people who are doing their darndest to push the whole apparatus > over. Many who brought about the Bush presidency and continue to > promote its most egregious offenses come to mind, for example. > > It's important to recognize this behavior and understand what keeps > persons working at our common undoing. I don't think any analysis I > have seen so far - "illuminati", "ruling class", "neocons", > "sociopaths", "reptilians", "global banking cartel" - pulls it all > together. The DV article is a major advance. > > Hal > > On May 12, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Connie Smith wrote: > >> Coincidentally, I've been working on a "Nature of Evil" piece -- >> shorter, simpler -- that goes hand-in-glove with this. I'll >> probably combine them, with credits of course, and send out soon! >> Maybe A LOT of people are finally getting this message??!! >> >> Connie >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Ragen Gillam >> To: Citizens Truth >> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 2:53 PM >> Subject: [CitizensTruth] Important Article >> >> This is a really good article about the role of psychopathy in our >> world, and what people of conscience must do to finally get the >> psychopaths out of power. >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/beware-the-psychopath-my-son/ > << File: ATT00035.htm >> << File: ATT00036.txt >> > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info Kris Knight of WellAware Life Enhancement Center Phone: 1-608-ALL-LIFE welaware at merr.com From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Tue May 13 16:58:23 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:58:23 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] YOU'RE INVITED: "Build a New World" conference May 22-25 Message-ID: <482A00EF.9010302@thetwofacesofmoney.com> WHAT: Build a New World Conference (http://wpaconference.org/ ) featuring dozens of nationally known speakers and EVEN local activists like myself. WHEN: May 22-25, workshops and panels held Friday and Saturday. Opening Plenary: End of Empire WHERE: Radford University, Radford Va WHY: Presentations on a wide variety of topics, including Trial and Impeachment of Bush/Cheney, Election Fraud, Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights, Cooperatives and Localization, Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution, The Income Tax, Monetary Theory and much more. Schedule is still being finalized but I (Geraldine Perry) will be on two panels, one on health care, and one on monetary policy/theory. I also will head two workshops. One is "Money Owed and Owned" and another titled "Meet the One World Economic/Police State Order." For more info, you can read this excellent interview with Conference Organizer Gaarda Ghista (who is risking everything by assuming the bulk of financing for the event): http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/genera_cathy_ga_080503_interview_with__22buil.htm PLEASE COME, and/or make a small donation to help defray costs of Gaarda Ghista, who again is bearing the primary event cost herself Contact: For any questions or comments, please contact Garda Ghista at: wpaeditor at gmail.com or 859 781-4979. skype ? garda.ghista PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY From garyfranchi at yahoo.com Tue May 13 19:03:32 2008 From: garyfranchi at yahoo.com (Gary Franchi, LLS) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] This June 5th Message-ID: <36459.51106.qm@web30403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The purpose of the staged invasion is to force all the people and governments to believe in the immediate necessity of a One World Government to fight the Alien threat here's the latest story from the BBC on the UFO stuff: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7399717.stm Here's Stewart's website: http://expansions.com/index.cfm to be clear, I am not saying that UFO's etc... are not real things, but that we should always question the intention when the MSM decides to report on something like that peace, Andrew _________________________________________________________________ Make Windows Vista more reliable and secure with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. http://www.windowsvista.com/SP1?WT.mc_id=hotmailvistasp1banner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And - the more the different squawking voices of our mass media get together on a single interpretation of things, the more suspicious I get. Tibet is a recent example. And there are warning signs about Iran. After experiencing freedom of thought - digging up bits of truth outside the media bubble on any suppressed issue will do it - it becomes downright irritating when when the propaganda machine starts telling everybody what to think. On May 14, 2008, at 11:39 AM, andrew ritter wrote: > to be clear, I am not saying that UFO's etc... are not real things, > but that we should always question the intention when the MSM > decides to report on something like that > > peace, > > Andrew From Walterb306 at cs.com Thu May 15 13:14:43 2008 From: Walterb306 at cs.com (Walterb306 at cs.com) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:14:43 EDT Subject: [CitizensTruth] Book Discussion-Strategy Group 5-31-2008 Message-ID: All, The Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice and the Metro Chicago Progressive Media Network have been hosting a series of book discussion/strategies meetings to focus on how we can be more effective in ending the current war/occupation. We have been consulting prominent anti-war spokespersons and activists for their input. The idea is to discuss their books and extract from them what is most useful for our own efforts here in our own groups and in our own area. Currently we are examining Tom Hayden's "Ending the War in Iraq." Since May 24 is on Memorial Day weekend, the meeting date for the Book Discussion/Strategy group has been moved to May 31. Same place and time: 11:00 am, Buzz Cafe, 905 S. Lombard. We will be either in the upstairs meeting room or at the lounge at the back of the first floor. We will be continuing discussion of Tom Hayden's 2007 book "Ending the War in Iraq." For those who have not had a chance to read the book there will be a brief presentation. One of the interesting points Hayden covers is his analysis of what he terms the "8 Pillars" of support for the war/occupation of Iraq. Many of these have been severely weakened already and he offers a fairly detailed strategy for targeting all of the pilllars: 1. Iraqi public support 2. American public support 3. Congressional support 4. Media support 5. Sufficient troop strength 6. Sufficient financial strength 7. Support of allies/world opinion 8. Moral justification A lot of you have been doing research on some of the underlying determinants of US policy and your input would be very valuable. This is a chance to put our heads together. Hope you can attend. Beverley 708/447-1547 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Thu May 15 16:53:17 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:53:17 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] HOT show tonight on 9/11! Message-ID: Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 9 pm Eastern, 8 pm Central (6 pm west coast time) http://airamerica.com/clout. Barbara Honegger, author of "The Pentagon Attack Papers," will discuss the proof that explosions occurred there 8 minutes earlier than a plane or a missile struck the Pentagon. Survivor April Gallop's story will be featured, who has testified under oath. She escaped through the hole in the Pentagon exterior wall, but she saw no plane parts whatsoever. The fires she observed were mainly the computers erupting in flames. This section of the Pentagon was tracking down the 2.3 trillion dollars that Donald Rumsfeld had announced was missing, the day before the 9/11 attacks. - - - Rob Balsamo, co-founder of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, will speak on the Black Box data he was given for Flight 77. The data shows that this plane was 476 feet above the ground at the officially reported moment of impact -- which is problematical because the Pentagon roof is only 91 feet above the ground. Further, enormous damage had already occurred there 8 minutes earlier. - - - Craig Ranke of a Citizen Investigation Team will discuss his videotaped interviews with eyewitnesses at the nearby Citgo gas station, and others at other nearby locations, all of whom verify that Flight 77 approached the Pentagon far south of where the official story claims. Also featured are the facts that the Pentagon immediately ordered the media not to take close-up photos nor take photos from the air. Early TV images blacked out the bottom third of the screen -- which would have shown there was no plane debris -- and no gouges on the lawn, which a 757 flying that low would have to make. (Then very soon the Pentagon covered the lawn with gravel, apparently to eliminate questions about why there was no lawn damage.) - - - Prof. David Ray Griffin, retired theologian and author of 6 books on 9/11, will address the startling evidence from the FBI that Barbara Olson's famous calls from doomed Flight 77 never occurred. Her husband, Ted Olson, the Solicitor General who argued at the Supreme Court for Bush's appointment to the presidency in 2000, is the person who contacted the media and reported her dramatic phone calls -- although he changed the details of the stories 3 times. He's also known for affirming publicly that government officials "sometimes have to lie." - - - Dr. Kevin Barrett, a most powerful 9/11 Truth advocate now running for Congress, may also be on the show as well. - - - Many more details on these hot topics will be discussed, and you can call in. 9pm eastern, 8pm central, 7pm mountain, 6pm west coast http://airamerica.com/clout -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com Thu May 15 17:21:02 2008 From: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com (Geri Perry) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:21:02 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Barrett on Chomsky [Fwd: Truth Jihad News: Rep. Kind Accepts Barrett's Challenge, Chomsky Backs Out] Message-ID: <482CA93E.1030202@thetwofacesofmoney.com> And Bill O'Reilly -------- Original Message -------- Greetings truth supporters, My congressional campaign is already heating up and getting lots of mainstream coverage, not just statewide but also nationally through wire services like the AP and even my good friend Bill O'Reilly's website - I'm in the lower right corner at https://www.billoreilly.com / Since Bill is so interested in me, I have challenged him to a formal debate on 9/11 and any other issues he chooses. I have proposed that the debate be held on the Boston Harbor quay, and that whoever the panel of judges decides is the winner shall have the right to push the loser into the harbor. This could be the first event ever broadcast live simultaneously by both Fox and C-Span ; ) Come on, O'Reilly - let me prove once and for all that you're all wet! While I'm still waiting to hear whether Bill "throw the 'conspiracy theorist' into the harbor" O'Reilly accepts my debate challenge, I didn't have to wait for my congressional election opponent, Rep. Ron Kind, who has agreed to debate me at an unspecified future date (see press release below). Kudos to Ron Kind for being the first federal office-holder with the guts to debate a 9/11 skeptic. Speaking of national media, don't forget to tune in tonight at 8 pm Central for Richard Greene's show Clout: http://airamerica.com/clout/ Tonight's debate topic is the questions surrounding the attack on the Pentagon. It will feature Rob Balsamo of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Craig Ranke of CIT, and others. Bad news: Chomsky has backed out of our scheduled interview. He now falsely claims that I had promised in an email to completely avoid the subject of 9/11, when in fact the email record clearly demonstrates that the opposite was the case. He also endlessly repeats the mantra that proving World Trade Center Building 7 was taken down in controlled demolition would be unimportant, because that would just prove that it was Bin Laden who demolished it. These and similar statements led me (and many others) to believe the many Chomsky quotes seemingly saying that "it doesn't matter" whether 9/11 was an inside job were genuine. He insists they were taken out of context, and waxes indignant about my having accepted them at face value. For the record, I immediately accepted his claim that the quotes were misleading, and apologized for crediting them - but he refused to acknowledge three consecutive apologies, and continued berating me for ever believing that he could be so crazy as to think it "didn't matter" whether 9/11 was an inside job. (Meanwhile, he never tires of repeating that if WTC-7 was demolished, it must have been done by Bin Laden.) Frankly, I wish someone would explain to me the deep structure of Chomsky's statements, because the surface structure makes no sense whatsoever. I will publish the entire email record of our correspondence - a hilarious dialogue-of-the-deaf even though only one side was deaf - as soon as he gives me permission to do so. Thanks for paying attention, and please check out my website http://www.barrettforcongress.us and feel free to offer feedback. Cheers, rotten fruit, and especially constructive suggestions are all appreciated ; ) Thanks for your ongoing efforts in support of truth and justice. Kevin Barrett http://barrettforcongress.us Please note my new email address: kbarrett at merr.com Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Rep. Ron Kind Agrees to Debate Kevin Barrett Unexpected Offer Comes as Barrett Announces Challenge to Veteran Congressman In an unprecedented breakthrough for both the Libertarian party and the 9/11 truth movement, Rep. Ron Kind has agreed to debate his Libertarian challenger for Wisconsin's 3rd District congressional seat. (Watch the youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCg_QYEeA ) The first Barrett-Kind debate will undoubtedly draw national media attention. It will be the first time a federal office-holder has agreed to debate a leading figure from the 9/11 truth movement. And it is apparently the first time that a major-party incumbent in a three-way race has agreed to debate the third-party challenger rather than the major-party challenger. (Kind and Barrett may be kind enough to invite the third candidate, Republican Paul Stark, to participate in the debates, despite the increasing irrelevance of the collapsing Republican party.) Kind's acceptance of Barrett's debate offer came just minutes after Barrett's official announcement of his candidacy at Kind's listening session in Sparta, Wisconsin. Barrett said he was surprised and pleased by Kind's stated willingness to debate. "My respect for him just went up a couple of notches," Barrett said. "Unlike Steve Nass, Mark Green, and the 60 state legislators who wanted me fired from my job at the UW due to my political views, Ron Kind apparently has the guts to face me in a free and fair debate. I'm happy to have found a worthy opponent." Alongside the national media, the Wisconsin media will be interested in the debates, not only due to the unusual nature of the race, and Barrett's refreshingly candid approach to the issues, but also because Kind has been widely touted as a likely candidate for governor. Barrett and Kind will be working together to schedule the debates as the campaign heats up. In more good news for the Barrett campaign, WTDY talk radio host Sly has endorsed Barrett's candidacy. The endorsement represents another unprecedented breakthrough, since it is the first time a major mainstream talk radio host has endorsed a pro-9/11-truth candidate for public office. The endorsement came on Sly's radio show Friday. Finally, Richard Greene, host of the nationally-syndicated Air America show "Clout," has chosen Kevin Barrett to produce his "Month of Truth" radio shows every Thursday night in May. Last week's show featured Barrett, along with engineer Tony Szamboti, physics professor Steven Jones, and architect Richard Gage debating the demolition of the World Trade Center against former Special Forces operative John Brown. This Thursday, May 15th, Rob Balsamo of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Craig Ranke of the Citizen's Investigation Team (CIT), and Barrett will debate the question of what happened at the Pentagon against one or more yet-to-be-named opponents. The show runs 8-10 pm Central at http://airamerica.com/clout/ and on Air America stations around the USA. Updates on these and other campaign stories will be posted at Barrett's website, http://www.barrettforcongress.us Contact: Kevin Barrett, kbarrett at merr.com Rolf Lindgren, Barrett Campaign Advisor rolfusaugustusadolphus at yahoo.com Dr. Kevin Barrett Libertarian Congressional Candidate, Wisconsin's 3rd District: www.BarrettForCongress.us Radio Journalist: GCN, NoLiesRadio, RBN, and WTPRN Complete radio schedule (next week's schedule should be up this weekend): http://www.mujca.com/airwaves.htm News Headline Show: No Lies News! http://noliesradio.org / This is radio news with an attitude! Catch it before the FCC hears it and sends me to Guantanamo. Sample show: http://www.alexjonesfan58.com/mp3/20080326_kevinbarrett_nolies.mp3 Below are transcripts from this week. No Lies News Transcripts for the Week Ending 5/2/08 Thursday 5/15/08 In today's headlines...The Huffington Post has reported that Donald Rumsfeld has been caught on tape yearning for another 9/11-style attack. "An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon's 'message force multipliers' program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggesting that America, having voted the Democrats back into Congressional power, could benefit from suffering another terrorist attack." The article by political reporter Jason Linkins quotes Rumsfeld as saying: "That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack." Rumsfeld, a key suspect in the 9/11 crimes against humanity, has made numerous slips of the tongue when discussing 9/11, including saying that a missile hit the Pentagon, and that Flight 93 was shot down. Rumsfeld's threat to the American people was recently echoed by "victim of success" George W. Bush, when he warned in an interview that the Democratic presidential candidates' plans to withdraw abruptly from Iraq could "lead to another attack on the United States." In the same interview, Bush claimed he had given up playing golf as a gesture to the families of US troops killed in Iraq. The families, who may or may not be falling all over themselves with gratitude, could not be reached for comment. More evidence surfaced confirming Rumsfeld's warning that the American people are not buying into the "war on terror" hoax this week, when only 350 people, out of an expected 4,000, showed up to participate in a terror drill at Chicago's Sears Centre Arena. In war on freedom news, journalist Wayne Madsen, who broke the story that Dick Cheney was on DC Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey's client list, has been brutally harassed by TSA brownshirts at Washington's Reagan Airport. Madsen was threatened with body cavity searches, sexually assaulted in the form of the classic TSA groin-grope, and had his list of confidential sources compromised by the uniformed thugs. Madsen writes: "In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's world of an 'Israelized' America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms of Stasi-like control of the American citizenry by a government that treats anyone as a suspicious person in the same manner that Israel mistreats its own Arab citizens and Palestinians." More and more patriotic Americans, including congressional candidate Kevin Barrett (full disclosure - that's me) are calling for dual-citizen Zionist fanatic Chertoff to be arrested as an unregistered agent of a foreign power. Speaking of evil Zionist fanatics, the UK /Indepenent/ is reporting that "the UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children." Schoolteacher Wafer Shaker al Daghma had most of her head blown off her body in front of her children, who were then confined in close proximity to the headless body of their mother for five hours. Today is Nakba day, the international day of mourning and hope commemorating the Palestinian Holocaust of 1948. For information on how you can help stop that holocaust, visit al-awda.org . This is Kevin Barrett for No Lies Headlines, saying the Palestinians, like other Arab peoples, are the most wonderful, generous, hospitable hosts...IF you're their guests. But if you brutally invade and occupy their country...well, as Monty Python says, never be rude to an Arab. (Monty Python, "Never Be Rude to an Arab") Wednesday 5/14/08 In today's truth news...the Associated Press has reported that Pat Tillman's mother suspects the Army is STILL lying about the circumstances of Tillman's death. Mary Tillman's new book /Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman/ chronicles the Tillman family?s long, painful slog through the false official accounts of how the former football player died. For five weeks after Tillman's death, the Army continually lied by claiming that Tillman had died in an enemy ambush. In fact, he was shot dead from point-blank range by American soldiers. The question is, why. The Army says it was a friendly-fire accident. But a large body of evidence suggests that Tillman was executed under orders from top brass to prevent him from denouncing the war and becoming an antiwar icon. Tillman died of three bullet holes in the head that were "so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired /from a mere 10 yards or so away/" according to Army medical examiners. The medical examiners' report added that "No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene - no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck." Tillman, who had volunteered for the war after 9/11 and then discovered that he had been duped by a tidal wave of lies, had contacted antiwar leaders in the US and prepared a campaign to denounce the war and awaken the American people shortly before he was killed. According to prisonplanet.com, General Wesley Clark stated on the Keith Olbermann show last July that "orders came from the very top" to murder Pat Tillman and silence his truth campaign before it could get started. In a rare morsel of truth served up by a major presidential, Barack Obama has said that Israel is a "wound," a "constant sore" and an infection. Here is a full quote of the exchange, from an Obama interview with Jeff Goldberg in the /Atlantic/: Jeff Goldberg:--- "Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas?" Barack Obama:--- "No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy." In more "careful, your truth is showing" news, the US military has confessed that the "captured Iranian weapons" it planned to show journalists to prove that the Iranians were supplying the Iraqi resistance are not Iranian at all. LA Times correspondent Tina Sussman in Baghdad has reported : ?A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran." This "realization" was triggered by a report by honest explosive experts. In war-on-the-economy news, CNN has reported that foreclosure filings set a new record last month. The rate of foreclosures has risen to the point that almost one in 500 US homes received a foreclosure filing in April alone. CNN did not ask why American families are being thrown into the streets in order to pay for the 5 trillion dollar destruction of the once-prosperous nation of Iraq. Nor did it point out that that war's real beneficiaries are the military industrial complex, oil speculators and profiteers, and last but not least, the illegitimate rogue regime that calls itself "Israel." And speaking of the Zionist entity, tomorrow, Thursday, is Nakba Day - the international day of mourning and hope commemorating the Palestinian Holocaust of 1948 - a US-taxpayer-funded holocaust that continues to this day. This is Kevin Barrett for No Lies Headlines, reminding you that al-Quds is Arabic for occupied Jerusalem. (Alpha Blondy, "Jerusalem") Tuesday 5/13/08 In kangaroo court news...The Pentagon has dropped charges against the man it claims was supposed to be the "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks. The alleged "20th patsy," Mohammed Al-Qahtani, has recanted a confession he said he made after he was tortured at Guantanamo. Al-Qahtani said he was beaten, restrained for long periods in painful positions, menaced with dogs, blasted with loud music and freezing temperatures, and stripped naked in front of female personnel. After years of that kind of treatment, it's a wonder he hasn't confessed being Jack the Ripper. The Yahoo News story reports the Pentagon's claim that al-Qahtani "barely missed becoming the 20th hijacker on Sept. 11, 2001." In fact, Icelandic human rights activist Elias Davidsson has argued in his detailed memorandum to the UN that overwhelming evidence proves there were no Arab Muslims on board any of the planes allegedly used in the September 11th attacks. Despite the mountain of evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, the military courts are going ahead with the 9/11 prosecutions of five more torture-victim patsies including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. In war provocations news, Iranmania.com has reported that "Close to 60 British marines were seen patrolling near the Iranian border of Shalamcheh in groups of 20, carrying light weapons and monitoring the condition of the sealed border crossing." The story adds that "Members of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization have reportedly been sighted among the marines in American uniforms." The Mujahideen Khalq is one of the craziest and most vicious terrorist groups in the Middle East. Their presence among American and British troops suggests that they are being used in an attempt to provoke war with Iran. In mainstream politics news, Politico.com is reporting that the Republican Party is getting crushed in polls and in key races. After a seven-year Republican reign of terror including the Bush coups d'etat in 2000 and 2004, the 9/11 inside job, the five trillion dollar quagmire in Iraq, and other horrors, voters are apparently ready to send the GOP the way of the Whigs. The only problem is, whether the Democrats are significantly better is still an open question. Meanwhile, the pro-Democrat website Buzzflash has commented on a Chicago /Tribune/ editorial that mangled Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta's sworn testimony that Dick Cheney ordered an apparent stand-down order allowing the Pentagon to be hit on 9/11. The /Tribune/ editorial falsely stated that Mineta's testimony concerned Flight 93, when in fact Mineta has confirmed that it happened before 9:30 and thus can only have concerned the alleged Flight 77. Unfortunately, Buzzflash gets it wrong too. According to Buzzflash, Mineta's story implicates Cheney in the shooting down of Flight 93. While it is true that Flight 93 (or some other plane near Shanksville, PA) appears to have been shot down, Mineta's testimony implicates Cheney in participating in the attack on the Pentagon - not in shooting down Flight 93. The comments section attached to the Buzzflash article is overflowing with 9/11 truth supporters telling Buzzflash to wake up and smell the 9/11 truth. In 9/11 activism news, NORTH TEXANS FOR 9-11 TRUTH has launched the Plane Truth project , a plan to have airplanes with 9/11 truth banners circling the skies of America on July 4th, 2008. For more information on how you can support this excellent endeavor, just google the group North Texans for 9/11 Truth. The Fourth of July would be a great time for Americans to...listen to the sky. (Sands, "Listen to the Sky") Monday 5/12 In 9/11 truth news...JoeCrubagh.com has reported on the World Trade Center asbestos scandal , pointing out that according to Trade Center plans, 5,000 tons of asbestos were going to be used in the Twin Towers, and that estimates of the amount actually used range from 400 to 2000 tons. The asbestos, thousands of human bodies, and everything else in the Twin Towers was somehow blasted into shards mixed with sub-100-micron dust on September 11th, 2001, and inhaled by New Yorkers, especially first responders. Joe Crubagh reports that the catastrophic destruction of the Twin Towers solved an otherwise hopeless asbestos problem: "Because of the asbestos health risks, and their size, the Twin Towers couldn?t be demolished. And because of the asbestos, they couldn?t be upgraded. And disassembling them floor by floor would have run into the double-digit billions of dollars." Why, then, did Larry Silverstein, a close friend of Israeli extremist fanatic Netanyahu, purchase the World Trade Center shortly before 9/11? Was he really that stupid? Not hardly. "Lucky Larry" Silverstein, who has publicly admitted being party to a decision to "pull" or demolish World Trade Center Building 7, cashed in on the destruction of the World Trade Center to the tune of almost 5 billion dollars in insurance money, and he is asking for another 11 billion dollars from other insurers. While Larry Silverstein rakes in billions of dollars, first responders are dying. The New York Daily News has reported that more than 360 first responders have died, including 80 cancer victims. And that, according to first responder representative David Worby, is "the tip of the iceberg." In war for oil news, the London /Times /has reported that supply problems from Iran are pushing world oil prices toward $200 a barrel. What the /Times/ doesn't mention is that oil isn't going up so much as the US dollar is going down. The dollar is plunging because the Federal Reserve is printing brazillions of them to pay for the Cheney regime's endless wars...while at least half of the price of gas at the pump represents hedge fund speculation, not the actual price of oil, according to http://www.actindependent.org , which is pushing a plan to chase out the speculators and cut the price of gas in half. In more cheerleading for war on Iran, the Jerusalem /Post/ has reported that "Israel now believes the Islamic Republic will master centrifuge technology and be able to begin enriching uranium on a military scale this year." The story adds that "Iran could have a nuclear weapon by the middle of next year." The Jerusalem /Post/, a Zionist extremist newspaper, does not mention that Iran, unlike Israel is a signatory in good standing of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and that nobody in the world except Israel thinks Iran is rushing to make nuclear weapons. The /Post /also neglects to mention that Israel possesses more than 400 nuclear weapons, and violates more international laws than all other nations on earth combined. In media truth news, Richard Greene, host of the radio show /Clout/, is making waves among Air America listeners with his May "Month of Truth" series on Thursday nights. Last Thursday, engineer Tony Szamboti, physics professor Steven Jones, and architect Richard Gage spent two hours "debating" the obvious controlled demolition of the World Trade Center with the only person they could find to defend the official account - a brave but outnumbered and outqualified ex-Special Forces guy named John Brown. http://www.911blogger.com/node/15487 Greene will continue with his 9/11 truth debate series on Thursday nights in May, 9-11 p.m. Eastern, http://airamerica.com/clout . Next Thursday night's show will feature experts from Pilots for 9/11 Truth and the Citizen's Investigation Team discussing questions about the planes allegedly used in the 9/11 attacks. Finally, Sunday, was Mother's Day...and it was also 11th of the month, Truth Action Day. All over the world, people were doing public visibility actions on this, the Mother of All Truth Action Days, and spreading their motherly love of the truth. (Mothers of Invention, "Motherly Love") From edward_rynearson at yahoo.com Thu May 15 17:28:51 2008 From: edward_rynearson at yahoo.com (Edward Rynearson) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Kevin Barrett Interviews Message-ID: <721651.77137.qm@web30004.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Kevin interviews William Pepper, author of "An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King" http://www.radiodujour.com/hosts/barrett_kevin/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Walterb306 at cs.com Thu May 15 20:50:33 2008 From: Walterb306 at cs.com (Walterb306 at cs.com) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:33 EDT Subject: [CitizensTruth] Report of US trained forces aiding Mexican cartels Message-ID: All, Government of criminals, by criminals, for criminals, See article below. Beverley May 14, 2008, 11:46PM U.S.-trained forces reportedly helping Mexican cartels By STEWART M. POWELL Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/5780470.html# WASHINGTON ? As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday. The renegade members of Mexico's elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The slaughter has gained urgency amid high-profile assassinations of law officers in Mexico since May 1, claiming six senior officers, five of them with the federal police. Poe held aloft a dramatic, poster-board-size photograph that he said showed guerrilla-style commandos crossing into the United States. He said the Department of Homeland Security had documented "over 250 incursions by suspected military forces" into the United States over the past decade. "I was surprised to hear that the United States has trained Mexican forces and some of those have deserted and become the reason for these attacks," Poe said. Officers 'switched sides' The U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have "switched sides and became assassins and recruiters for the Mexican drug cartels." Poe, a former prosecutor and criminal court judge, issued the allegations in an unsuccessful effort to persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee to revamp President Bush's Merida Initiative. Bush's blueprint calls for $1.4 billion in training, equipment and law enforcement assistance to Mexico and Central America over three years. Bush also is seeking $500 million in emergency assistance for Mexico this year as part of the supplemental war spending measure. Democrats have included only $400 million of Bush's request in the $161 billion war spending measure. Poe tried to require the Bush administration to evenly split spending between the United States and Mexico rather than sending the entire amount south of the border. "It seems as though the United States has a history in some cases of giving support (to Mexico) and that support turns around and is used against the very people we're trying to protect, in this case, us," Poe said. "We have no assurance that the equipment we're sending to Mexico won't be turned over to the drug cartels and used against us." Panel backs original plan Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, also tried to persuade the Democratic-controlled panel to shift part of the Mexico-bound spending to the United States to bolster law enforcement efforts on the border. McCaul, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in counter-terrorism, called border drug violence "an imminent security threat right on our doorstep" that deserves the same effort as the war on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 50-member panel, led by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., largely endorsed the Bush administration's version of the proposal, expanding assistance beyond Mexico and Central America to include the Caribbean nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Berman referred Poe's and McCaul's proposed changes to the House Judiciary Committee, saying their plans for greater spending by U.S. law enforcement along the border fell within that panel's jurisdiction. stewart.powell at chron.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Thu May 15 23:39:24 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:39:24 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Larisa: Bush family's Nazi ties and 'appeasement' Message-ID: <482D01EC.80504@mailbag.com> Wow. Ya think? http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/all-the-preside.html All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush (cross-posted at Huffington Post ) Dear Mr. Bush, Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Let me remind you, Mr. Bush, of your words today : "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem. "We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." Well Mr. Bush, the only thing this comment lacked was a mirror and some historical facts. You want to discuss the crimes of Nazis against my family and millions of other families in Europe during World War II? Let me revive a favorite phrase of yours: Bring. It. On! * The All-American Nazi* Your family's fortune is built on the bones of the very people butchered by the Nazis, my family and the families of those in the Knesset who applauded you today : WASHINGTON -- President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show. Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp. (search), a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism. --snip-- Both Harrimans and Bush were partners in the New York investment firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co., which handled the financial transactions of the bank as well as other financial dealings with several other companies linked to Bank voor Handel that were confiscated by the U.S. government during World War II. Union Banking was seized by the government in October 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Oh, but there is much more too : The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war, Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of "state sovereignty". I cannot think of one Democrat who can boast this kind of lineage. Can you? No, I don't think so. But you can lie brazenly and attack a sitting US Senator on foreign soil by comparing him to Nazi sympathizers? Let us continue down memory lane to help those who applaud you understand just what it is they are celebrating. *The All American Traitor* You family did not stop with supporting fascists and Nazis abroad, did they Mr. Bush? Surely you must know of your grandfather's role in the treasonous plot of 1933 to overthrow democracy in America? Let me remind you. Grandpa Bush - that is to say, your grandfather - wanted fascism imported into the United States, or as you now call this type of transformation, "exporting democracy." Prescott went so far as to subsidize a coup attempt in order to achieve his dream of a fascist America (see BBC report below ): Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American In other words, not only was your grandfather a self-professed fascist, he was a Nazi sympathizer and a war profiteer who should have stood trial at the Hague instead of buying his way into the US Senate. He was also a traitor, twice over. Now clearly the crimes of Prescott Bush are not your fault, Mr. George W. Bush. Let us therefore judge your actions and words on their own merit. *Iraq is your Poland* Your reminiscence today about the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany should have been seen as your own condemnation of your own abhorrent actions against Iraq. The morbid irony of what you said will likely never register with your or your speechwriter. To truly grasp the grotesqueness of what you said requires that you have both a conscience and some understanding of history. We know you possess neither. I will therefore make your history lesson brief, but to the point. The unprovoked attack on Poland by Germany was a war crime just as your attack against Iraq - based on lies - is a war crime. This is not my opinion. This is not a political attack. This is a fact. Consider the words of the esteemed former chief prosecutor in the Nuremburg trials, Benjamin Ferencz, regarding your war of aggression against Iraq : "...Prima facie case can be made that the United States is guilty of the supreme crime against humanity, that being an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation." Moreover, your reckless verbiage and partisan pandering using something as tragic and criminal as Germany's war of aggression against Poland is an insult to all victims of those atrocities. My grandfather's sister and parents were having supper in their Warsaw home when a German bomb erased them from this planet. Your evoking the German atrocities against Poland in order to play dirty politics against Democrats is as offensive to me as if you had pinned a swastika onto your lapel. Even your own words appear to be penned by Hitler's ghost all the while you imply that Democrats are Nazis and/or terrorists - something you have done over and over. Your lies and Hitler's lies even have the same purpose. When you, Mr. Bush, said "see in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda," were you aware of Adolph Hitler's eerily similar statement? Hitler said "If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." Yet if words alone were your only weapon and words strung together into lies your only crime, you might be seen as simply the loathsome, unethical dilettante and despot that you are. Unfortunately, your crimes are many and so similar to those of the Nazi regime that at times one wonders if you are not yourself reenacting that very history you used today as an insult against a political opponent. *Your very own concentration camps* You ordered the creation of secret camps all over the world and on US territory where you also authorized the torture of countless men, women and children is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international law, and domestic law. In other words, you authorized war crimes. We don't know the number of people you have had disappeared, tortured, and possibly murdered. Although we have some idea of what these numbers may be, I doubt the full truth of it all will ever be known. In 2005, I had a CENTCOM document leaked to me illustrating that since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, more than 70,000 men, women, and children have been detained at one of your various camps Mr. Bush. We don't know what happened to them, if they were tortured, raped, or murdered. What we do know is that less than 2% of those 70,000 had any sort of charge brought against them in a court of law. None of those alleged crimes, by the way, were acts of terrorism. We don't know if that 70,000 figure was the actual and full count of detainees in US custody around the world in 2005. But it is safe to say that in the last 3 years since this document was published, the number of detainees has likely grown. What we also now know, in great horror, is that at least one of your camps had a crematorium in it, which some of the US soldiers stationed there suspected was used for burning bodies : "We had some kind of incinerator at the end of our building," Specialist Megan Ambuhl said. "It was this huge circular thing. We just didn't know what was incinerated in there. It could have been people, for all we knew--bodies." Sergeant Davis was not in doubt. "It had bones in it," he said, and he called it the crematorium. "But hey, you're at war," he said. "Suck it up or drive on." What we also now know is that Dick Cheney and senior members of your administration carried out a plan of torture and abuse that violated international and domestic law with regard to human rights, down to the type of torture tactics that would be used against prisoners in our custody. This plan, we now know, was approved by you. Has the mirror cracked yet from this much fact or are you still peering into the political sphere hoping to ascribe your own crimes to others? It won't work. It never has and it certainly won't work now. We know far too much about you and yours. I could continue listing the litany of your crimes, both against the United States and against foreign nations. I won't. We know what you are and what you have done. Having roughly 1,000,000 dead Iraqis under your belt should have shamed you into the parasitic hole you came out of, attaching yourself to the blood of this nation and sucking it dry. Instead, you parade around, the globe-trotting horror show and anti-Semite that you are. * Yes, you are an anti-Semite* Would you say no, you are not an anti-Semite? Consider your own words when you thought no one was keeping score : "You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't you Herman?" a then Governor George W. Bush allegedly asked a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. When the journalist, Ken Herman, replied that he did not know, Bush reportedly delivered the punch line: "I'm telling 'em they're all going to hell." Only an anti-Semite would think this type of humor is acceptable. Did you tell the Jews of Israel they were going to hell? No, instead, you told them that American Democrats are Nazi sympathizers and in an act of sheer indecency, the right wing Likud party orchestrated the greatest applause you ever got. For shame! What this blind adoration finally proves to me is that the right-wing regime that has overtaken Israel cares nothing for its people, its heritage, and the tragic history that they now honor by applauding a man whose family-fortune was built on the bodies of their loved ones. Like their Republican (and Lieberman) counterparts in the United States, Likud does not represent its people, rather, it represents its owners. Likud has traded Israel, its Jews, their heritage and history for the same golden calf purchased and sold by the far-right wing in the United States. I am ashamed of you Mr. Bush. I am ashamed of those who applauded your political porn played out against the hallowed backdrop of the Holocaust. I am ashamed of those reporters with you, who between them could not muster the moral courage to call you out on your ugly rhetoric and ask you about your own family Nazi ties. You are, sir, the most abhorrent human being of my lifetime. I dare say, in the lifetime of this nation. Subscribe to this feed . Email this . Add to Blogroll . Blog This . Digg This! (4 Diggs) . Add to Technorati Favorites! . Save to del.icio.us . Submit to Reddit . Share on Facebook . Discuss on Newsvine . Related Posts from Sphere . Seed This . Stumble It! . inclue! this in Outlook . Submit To Propeller . Fark It . View CC license Posted by Larisa Alexandrovna on May 15, 2008 at 07:55 PM | Permalink ShareThis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From futurenotwritten at yahoo.com Fri May 16 09:35:10 2008 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com (Jay Becker) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] "Go to Work, Go to Jail" Message-ID: <463980.50710.qm@web33505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Go to Work, Go to Jail By Ron Jacobs Z Net Thursday 15 May 2008 Recently, more than 100 workers in Pascagoula, Mississippi walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard last week to protest conditions similar to slavery. The workers, were protesting the conditions they have been living and working in since being hired from India after Hurricane Katrina. According to the lawsuit filed in the workers' behalf, the workers were offered jobs, green cards and permanent residency in exchange for as much as $20,000 each that they paid to recruiters working for a Northrop Grumman subsidiary in Bombay. One of the organizers of the march was quoted in a press release put out by the New Orleans Worker Justice Coalition, saying "They promised us green cards and permanent residency, and instead gave us 10-month visas and made us live like animals in company trailers, 24 to a room. We were trapped between an ocean of debt at home and constant threats of deportation from our bosses in Mississippi." When workers attempted to organize against these conditions the organizers were fired. This is but the tip of the iceberg. In what can only be termed circumstances similar to those of foreign workers hired by US and British companies to work on the ill-fated reconstruction of Iraq, the litany of abuses against those - both US-born and foreign - hired by various corporations to work in the reconstruction of New Orleans and the rest of the US southern coast hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A recently released report by the New Orleans Worker Justice Coalition is an ongoing litany of corporate corruption, worker abuse and outright illegal and immoral violation of human rights. Also in Mississippi, beginning July 1st, 2008 it will become a felony for an undocumented worker to hold a job. Anyone caught working without papers "shall be subject to imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years, a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or both." Furthermore, anyone charged with the crime of working without papers will not be eligible for bail. In Iowa, federal ICE agents arrested hundreds of workers at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meat packing plant. The reason given by law enforcement was that the workers were using false social security numbers. Of course, the facts are that people can't work without a social security number and cannot get one unless they have been given some kind of legal status by the government - a status becoming more difficult to acquire by the day. This is but one more Catch-22 in the life of an immigrant in the US. Meanwhile, in Danbury, CT. a court upheld the use of undercover police acting as day-labor employers to arrest men and women looking for work in that city. The workers were then deported. In San Diego County, plans are underway to build two large detention centers that will hold immigrants without papers for indeterminate amounts of time. Haliburton hopes to get the contract. In South Carolina, Georgia and some other states, legislators have introduced laws forbidding the use of any language but English in the workplace. Now, imagine a country where some residents have more rights than others. These residents can hold almost any job they desire. They live in neighborhoods away from those of darker skin and lesser means. The latter cannot hold any job they desire. Part of the reason for this is because of the law and part of the reason is because of the nature of their education and social status. Everyone must have identification that also signifies their social status, even though that status is primarily determined by the color of one's skin. If one does not have such identification (especially if they are not white), they are arrested. If they or their relatives can not produce identification, the arrestees once released are doomed to a life living in the shadows, always wondering if they will be turned in by their employer or enemies. The country I am talking about was apartheid South Africa. Now, since the advent of NAFTA and other so-called free trade agreements, the national boundaries between North and South America have been economically erased. If one stretches their imagination just a bit, it is possible to perceive the southern lands of Mexico and Central America as the equivalent of bantustans with the United States as their Capetown. Furthermore, the identification legal immigrants to the United States are required to carry can be compared to the passes blacks in South Africa needed to get into different parts of the white-ruled South Africa. If those passes were not in order or nonexistent, blacks were subject to arrest. Likewise, if the various documents that the US government requires immigrants to carry and produce at will are not in order or nonexistent, those immigrants will be arrested. Those immigrants without papers must live their lives in the shadows, always wondering if they will be turned in by their employer or enemies. If they live in some parts of the United States, the discovery of their lack of documents might occur as the result of a roadblock set up by police to check people's identification. Of course, there are a multitude of ways that these historical instances are not similar, but it is the underlying consciousness of fear is distressingly similar. It is questionable whether or not most US citizens agree with the efforts listed above that target immigrants. However, the lack of outcry by those who disagree with these attempts to dehumanize undocumented immigrants provides those invested in destroying immigrants' lives with a voice hopefully well beyond their numbers. So does the willingness of the US public to ignore the family-shattering raids and imprisonment of thousands of immigrants for no other reason than not having the approved documents. Implicit in this willingness is a sense that those being picked up and thrown in detention centers are not as human as "real Americans." If the lessons of authoritarian states have taught us anything, they should have taught us that we should be wary of those who would define a human being in ever-narrowing terms. 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They probably will get their funding canceled before this happens. :-( -Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Fri May 16 17:04:33 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:04:33 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Speculations on the Nature of Evil Message-ID: <0CAEB8652A364B088830B7CBCCF06500@InspironConnie> I published on this topic last year (link at bottom), but have since then re-worked it a number of times. Recent similar offerings by Dr. Kevin Barrett, Clinton Callahan, and others inspired me to work on it again -- that, and the editor of Rock Creek Free Press calling for articles. He published me previously in his Washington D.C. alternative newspaper -- which goes all over Capitol Hill, the city transportation system, and subscribers throughout the U.S. I've been waiting to see if this piece has been accepted, but he's busy sorting through the pile of submissions -- so I'll do my own distribution now. This will also appear later on my blog, Connie's Comments at http://www.conniescomments.blogspot.com/ Feel free to distribute now if you are so inclined. Connie - - - Speculations on the Nature of Evil by Connie Cook Smith May 14, 2008 I realize that activists in progressive political and religious movements tend to believe there are no evil souls. My own personal belief is that the eternal essence of a person is the purest energy. However, the widespread mental and emotional failure of our population to recognize the reality and the dynamics of human beings who choose to be evil is, in my opinion, exactly how evil is prevailing so disastrously. This failure to understand and recognize the evil-doers right in our midst allows them to run rampant and triumphant. And the reluctance of our citizenry to comprehend this is -- at very least -- driving our once-vibrant middle-class into poverty and despair. At most, it is ruining all of our nation for all of posterity, and wrecking the world as well. I earnestly believe the only way to stop an accelerating slide into the death of the USA and the deterioration of our planet is to bravely face the reality, presence, and machinations of evil people among us -- and to turn to the helpful awareness and action that "we really do have them outnumbered!" First, these necessary realizations. (Please think of any individuals or leaders you know who are like this -- maybe a sicko in your family or a psycho who is a leader.) a.. Evil craves power over others, to provide it a sense of superiority. b.. Evil overtly uses others, for its own security. c.. Evil enjoys hurting others. The desire and the power to hurt others is a thrill to Evil. d.. (Harming includes everything from teasing, controlling, torturing, and of course, killing.) e.. Good, by contrast, feels that harming others is repulsive and wrong. f.. Evil has an aggressive agenda, enjoys planning/manipulating to get what it wants from others, or over others. g.. Evil pretends to look good in order to get what it wants, and therefore tells chronic lies. h.. Evil makes you doubt Good people in your life, in order to reduce the protection around you. i.. Evil pretends to do good, pretends to embrace good causes, socially. Evil pretends to help you, personally. j.. But privately, Evil enjoys sabotaging individuals and causes, behind everyone's back. Too many people are apparently still too comfortable and therefore don't comprehend mass suffering. Thus they don't bother to reflect upon and come to understand all the Evil that's often behind it. Indeed, Good's fatal flaw is the failure to grasp Evil's enjoyment of doing harm and causing pain. Thus, Evil has been free to rise to the top of our governments, corporations, military, religions, and many other institutions, as Good -- good people -- naively fail to acknowledge what's really going on and "wonder why everything's gone wrong." All the lack of earthly progress -- especially all reversals -- of peace, prosperity, healthcare, clean/advanced technology, and universal brotherly love are most often caused by evil persons' deliberate delight at asserting power over others -- and provoking, disrupting, misinforming, assassinating, and otherwise blocking all fronts of human happiness -- for all but themselves and their allies. Evil people's tiny brains and shriveled hearts -- unfortunately, many of our leaders nowadays -- secretly delight in profiting from bloodshed, chaos, inequality, injustice, disease, poverty, and despair for humanity -- while they enjoy wealth, privilege, safety, freedom, and deeply perverted "fun" for themselves. This paragraph painfully describes our suffering world today. While these tendencies have always been present on a smaller scale, evil was well on its way to global organization in the previous century. A glimpse of its progress among evil Americans resides in a memo from the U.S. ambassador to Berlin prior to WWII. William E. Dodd wrote in 1937: "A clique of US industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended financial aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." American ruling families supporting fascism? Assisting "the bad guys"? Indeed -- as only one example of American Nazi support, it surfaced briefly in the media on October 17, 2003 that George W. Bush's grandfather had his assets seized by Congress on October 20, 1942, due to his decade of money-laundering for Hitler. Prescott Bush and his Union Banking partners were gung-ho for Adolf, helping to fund Nazi uniforms, arms, and even fuel for their planes. As Ambassador Dodd observed, there were actually a number of American ruling families who outright admired the "superior" Master Race idea and corporate control of society, and they frankly hoped this elitist-traitorous agenda would take hold in America. They actually attempted a coup, a takeover of FDR and the White House, in the early 1930's. But it failed when the military leader they chose strung them along to determine the plot, then reported and exposed them. Most of their names -- these "American ruling families" -- were kept out of the media (and they were not hanged for treason!) in exchange for their agreement to stop obstructing legislation for programs such as Social Security for the elderly, the poor, and the sick. Their identities do appear, however, in the 1973 book, now re-issued: "The Plot to Seize the White House." http://www.amazon.com/Plot-Seize-White-House-Conspiracy/dp/1602390363 Copious evidence further indicates these evil ones' and their "proud descendants" have given shadow support for, and have experienced benefits from, the assassinations of key anti-war figures -- JFK, MLK, RFK, John Lennon, and others. This is only logical since such fervent peace and pro-humanity leaders directly threaten the evil ones' domination of our world via war, deprivation, and chaos. And the general-public's failure to grasp the nature of evil further explains why most of the American population still cannot, and will not, comprehend the copious and obvious evidence of September 11th -- that the attacks were planned and carried out by traitors high in our government -- that they did this 1) in order to frame Muslims and thereby justify controlling the Middle East through illegal invasions and brutal war -- and 2) in order to consolidate and advance their crimes in America by means of destroyed records at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center -- plus their post-9/11 "law-making" that ultimately erases the people-protections of the U.S. Constitution. If we want to honor the souls who so suddenly perished or were grievously injured on 9/11 -- if we want to stop the world going down a darker and ever-darker path -- we need to responsibly wake up to the Truth that a few foreign hijackers could not possibly override every fail-safe within the United States' multi-billion-dollar state-of-the-art defense system -- unless evil men and women at high levels cleared the way and ensured that could happen. At least now, more and more experts and professionals from the fields of aviation, military, government, engineering, law enforcement, and academia have looked at the evidence and decided "the story we've been told" about what happened that day lacks credibility on all fronts. http://patriotsquestion911.com/ But even though we far outnumber them, we are clueless about what to do until we identify them. And we can't identify them until we see that most of the horrible acts, policies, and problems today come not from inexplicable conditions -- but from their high-profile promulgators who actually enjoy and directly profit from human suffering. Then I think we'll know what to do...! # # # Earlier version of this published last year at http://www.planetization.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Fri May 16 17:40:17 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:40:17 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Larisa: Bush family's Nazi ties and 'appeasement' In-Reply-To: <482D01EC.80504@mailbag.com> References: <482D01EC.80504@mailbag.com> Message-ID: This info on Bush family support for Nazi Germany is really getting around at last! I've sent it round many times, most recently today with my Speculations on the Nature of Evil -- written last year, re-written a few days ago. It is SO GREAT the public may become educated about this!!!!! Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Stafford To: IL Progressive Dems ; AB_Progressives ; Progressive ; DiehardDems at yahoogroups.com ; Citizen's Truth Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:39 PM Subject: [CitizensTruth] Larisa: Bush family's Nazi ties and 'appeasement' Wow. Ya think? http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/all-the-preside.html All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush (cross-posted at Huffington Post) Dear Mr. Bush, Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Let me remind you, Mr. Bush, of your words today: "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem. "We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." Well Mr. Bush, the only thing this comment lacked was a mirror and some historical facts. You want to discuss the crimes of Nazis against my family and millions of other families in Europe during World War II? Let me revive a favorite phrase of yours: Bring. It. On! The All-American Nazi Your family's fortune is built on the bones of the very people butchered by the Nazis, my family and the families of those in the Knesset who applauded you today: WASHINGTON -- President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show. Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp. (search), a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Fritz Thyssen was an early financial supporter of Hitler, whose Nazi party Thyssen believed was preferable to communism. --snip-- Both Harrimans and Bush were partners in the New York investment firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co., which handled the financial transactions of the bank as well as other financial dealings with several other companies linked to Bank voor Handel that were confiscated by the U.S. government during World War II. Union Banking was seized by the government in October 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Oh, but there is much more too: The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war, Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of "state sovereignty". I cannot think of one Democrat who can boast this kind of lineage. Can you? No, I don't think so. But you can lie brazenly and attack a sitting US Senator on foreign soil by comparing him to Nazi sympathizers? Let us continue down memory lane to help those who applaud you understand just what it is they are celebrating. The All American Traitor You family did not stop with supporting fascists and Nazis abroad, did they Mr. Bush? Surely you must know of your grandfather's role in the treasonous plot of 1933 to overthrow democracy in America? Let me remind you. Grandpa Bush - that is to say, your grandfather - wanted fascism imported into the United States, or as you now call this type of transformation, "exporting democracy." Prescott went so far as to subsidize a coup attempt in order to achieve his dream of a fascist America (see BBC report below): Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American In other words, not only was your grandfather a self-professed fascist, he was a Nazi sympathizer and a war profiteer who should have stood trial at the Hague instead of buying his way into the US Senate. He was also a traitor, twice over. Now clearly the crimes of Prescott Bush are not your fault, Mr. George W. Bush. Let us therefore judge your actions and words on their own merit. Iraq is your Poland Your reminiscence today about the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany should have been seen as your own condemnation of your own abhorrent actions against Iraq. The morbid irony of what you said will likely never register with your or your speechwriter. To truly grasp the grotesqueness of what you said requires that you have both a conscience and some understanding of history. We know you possess neither. I will therefore make your history lesson brief, but to the point. The unprovoked attack on Poland by Germany was a war crime just as your attack against Iraq - based on lies - is a war crime. This is not my opinion. This is not a political attack. This is a fact. Consider the words of the esteemed former chief prosecutor in the Nuremburg trials, Benjamin Ferencz, regarding your war of aggression against Iraq: "...Prima facie case can be made that the United States is guilty of the supreme crime against humanity, that being an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation." Moreover, your reckless verbiage and partisan pandering using something as tragic and criminal as Germany's war of aggression against Poland is an insult to all victims of those atrocities. My grandfather's sister and parents were having supper in their Warsaw home when a German bomb erased them from this planet. Your evoking the German atrocities against Poland in order to play dirty politics against Democrats is as offensive to me as if you had pinned a swastika onto your lapel. Even your own words appear to be penned by Hitler's ghost all the while you imply that Democrats are Nazis and/or terrorists - something you have done over and over. Your lies and Hitler's lies even have the same purpose. When you, Mr. Bush, said "see in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda," were you aware of Adolph Hitler's eerily similar statement? Hitler said "If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." Yet if words alone were your only weapon and words strung together into lies your only crime, you might be seen as simply the loathsome, unethical dilettante and despot that you are. Unfortunately, your crimes are many and so similar to those of the Nazi regime that at times one wonders if you are not yourself reenacting that very history you used today as an insult against a political opponent. Your very own concentration camps You ordered the creation of secret camps all over the world and on US territory where you also authorized the torture of countless men, women and children is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, international law, and domestic law. In other words, you authorized war crimes. We don't know the number of people you have had disappeared, tortured, and possibly murdered. Although we have some idea of what these numbers may be, I doubt the full truth of it all will ever be known. In 2005, I had a CENTCOM document leaked to me illustrating that since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, more than 70,000 men, women, and children have been detained at one of your various camps Mr. Bush. We don't know what happened to them, if they were tortured, raped, or murdered. What we do know is that less than 2% of those 70,000 had any sort of charge brought against them in a court of law. None of those alleged crimes, by the way, were acts of terrorism. We don't know if that 70,000 figure was the actual and full count of detainees in US custody around the world in 2005. But it is safe to say that in the last 3 years since this document was published, the number of detainees has likely grown. What we also now know, in great horror, is that at least one of your camps had a crematorium in it, which some of the US soldiers stationed there suspected was used for burning bodies: "We had some kind of incinerator at the end of our building," Specialist Megan Ambuhl said. "It was this huge circular thing. We just didn't know what was incinerated in there. It could have been people, for all we knew--bodies." Sergeant Davis was not in doubt. "It had bones in it," he said, and he called it the crematorium. "But hey, you're at war," he said. "Suck it up or drive on." What we also now know is that Dick Cheney and senior members of your administration carried out a plan of torture and abuse that violated international and domestic law with regard to human rights, down to the type of torture tactics that would be used against prisoners in our custody. This plan, we now know, was approved by you. Has the mirror cracked yet from this much fact or are you still peering into the political sphere hoping to ascribe your own crimes to others? It won't work. It never has and it certainly won't work now. We know far too much about you and yours. I could continue listing the litany of your crimes, both against the United States and against foreign nations. I won't. We know what you are and what you have done. Having roughly 1,000,000 dead Iraqis under your belt should have shamed you into the parasitic hole you came out of, attaching yourself to the blood of this nation and sucking it dry. Instead, you parade around, the globe-trotting horror show and anti-Semite that you are. Yes, you are an anti-Semite Would you say no, you are not an anti-Semite? Consider your own words when you thought no one was keeping score: "You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't you Herman?" a then Governor George W. Bush allegedly asked a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. When the journalist, Ken Herman, replied that he did not know, Bush reportedly delivered the punch line: "I'm telling 'em they're all going to hell." Only an anti-Semite would think this type of humor is acceptable. Did you tell the Jews of Israel they were going to hell? No, instead, you told them that American Democrats are Nazi sympathizers and in an act of sheer indecency, the right wing Likud party orchestrated the greatest applause you ever got. For shame! What this blind adoration finally proves to me is that the right-wing regime that has overtaken Israel cares nothing for its people, its heritage, and the tragic history that they now honor by applauding a man whose family-fortune was built on the bodies of their loved ones. Like their Republican (and Lieberman) counterparts in the United States, Likud does not represent its people, rather, it represents its owners. Likud has traded Israel, its Jews, their heritage and history for the same golden calf purchased and sold by the far-right wing in the United States. I am ashamed of you Mr. Bush. I am ashamed of those who applauded your political porn played out against the hallowed backdrop of the Holocaust. I am ashamed of those reporters with you, who between them could not muster the moral courage to call you out on your ugly rhetoric and ask you about your own family Nazi ties. You are, sir, the most abhorrent human being of my lifetime. I dare say, in the lifetime of this nation. Subscribe to this feed . Email this . Add to Blogroll . Blog This . Digg This! (4 Diggs) . Add to Technorati Favorites! . Save to del.icio.us . Submit to Reddit . Share on Facebook . Discuss on Newsvine . Related Posts from Sphere . Seed This . Stumble It! . inclue! this in Outlook . Submit To Propeller . Fark It . View CC license Posted by Larisa Alexandrovna on May 15, 2008 at 07:55 PM | Permalink ShareThis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CitizensTruth mailing list CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth website: http://citizenstruth.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Fri May 16 20:19:16 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 19:19:16 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] UFO's in the MSM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <037BF0E697C24ECFA055470BD72DF1A1@InspironConnie> It's very likely this exact plan does exist -- keep us cowed first with communism (little did we know that all the Nazis brought here via Project Paperclip just continued their long-time ideological battle here, in a stealth manner). Just IMAGINE if some knowledgeable teacher told students in the 1950's and 60's: Now, class -- the source of all this Red Scare business and the "you'd better be anti-Communist!" indoctrination we're getting is actually from Hitler's Nazis -- those your parents fought against, but who now are taking high positions in our American governement! Goodness, we just don't know what's worse, now do we? Communists or Nazis! Oh dear, oh dear..." And now our "terrorism" bogey-man. Time to get back under the "duck-and-cover" desks, kids! Then of course, we can expect nasty aliens, complete with a bells-and-whistles sky-show that some people will actually BELIEVE! However, it's my experience that the individual contacts with ETs that have been going on for a LONG time (not U.S. military-staged "alien abductions") -- but positive individual experiences and inspiring mass sightings have so many people already knowing the big difference between the real thing and a staged event that the "invasion" scenario might just turn out to be laughable! I see the Vatican is getting on board, perhaps so they can say "oh we always supported the idea of Space Brothers" -- when they turn out to be real and good. This article went around last year, but now it's being widely distributed by AP. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_aliens And as one teacher of these things predicted years ago, earth governments are officially releasing their impressive UFO files -- France last year, Britain a day or so ago -- with some good folks wanting to clue us in and help adjust us to upcoming healthy interaction with advanced (and SO helpful!) civilizations. THAT sure will make OUR powers-that-be obsolete -- despite all the demonizing they have done and will continue to do. So much more to say about this, but all the time I have now. Hope there's something helpful here. Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: Walterb306 at cs.com To: aroyboy44 at hotmail.com ; citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] UFO's in the MSM Andrew and All, This fits what I have read: that the plan was to keep the public in fear with a series of big scares, since the power elites realize that they can't keep one enemy-scare going indefintely, so they have to have another lined up to take over: 1. communism 2. terrorism 3. ET's Beverley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CitizensTruth mailing list CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth website: http://citizenstruth.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Walterb306 at cs.com Sat May 17 10:09:20 2008 From: Walterb306 at cs.com (Walterb306 at cs.com) Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:09:20 EDT Subject: [CitizensTruth] UFO's in the MSM Message-ID: Conni and All, Interesting that you cite the Vatican article on your email. Just a day or so ago AAR WCPT talk show host (Thom Hartman I believe) referred to this Vatican postition on ETs. If you want a rather concise overview of UFO footage, there's a 40 minute1996 video "UFO's are Real! - Xposed" by Master Time, Inc. I've had it for awhile, so don't know how available it is. 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Martin Shotz Message-ID: <604461.89347.qm@web30001.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Kevin Barrett speaks with Dr. E. Martin Shotz, author of History Will Not Absolve Us : Orwellian Control, Public Denial, & the Murder of President Kennedy about the JFK assassination, 911, and other historical events. http://www.radiodujour.com/hosts/barrett_kevin/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Tue May 20 00:13:40 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:13:40 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Grow, Transport Message-ID: <48324FF4.7060801@mailbag.com> Grow , (Airs Tuesday, May 20th at 9pm Eastern & Pacific, 30 minutes) is the next episode in the Sundance Channel's "Big Ideas For a Small Planet " series. Featuring three examples of ways to increase urban green space, Grow begins with green roofs in the Bronx, featuring the South Bronx municipal courthouse, and an individual home owner's green roof being installed. Grow gives a thorough reasoning for doing green roofs, and covers many of the benefits such roofing methods create, including tripling the life of the roofing material and significantly reducing heat load on the building. Next, Grow moves into xeriscaping, the art of using local native plant life to replace the traditional lawn in order to drastically reduce watering needs and increase habitat area for local species of bird and insect life. Focusing mostly on Phoenix, Arizona and touching lightly on California, this segment lays out a powerful case for rethinking suburban landscapes. Finally, instant parks are featured, springing up in twenty minutes all across the country. The sheer joy of urbanites able to wiggle their bare toes in the grass is uplifting, and there are some statistical reasons that you'll want to know about for your own sake in this segment. For an uplifting and hopeful dose of greenery, tune into Grow tomorrow night at 9pm. ---------------------------------------- Transport follows the following Tuesday, May 29th, at 9pm Eastern & Pacific. (Run time 30 minutes) Following the three example format, Transport leads off with the New York City transportation district's multiple-method approach to increasing transportation efficiency and reducing energy consumption, emissions, and congestion. Bicycle lane improvements, interconnection, and increases is a major portion of the plan, followed closely by bus rapid transit lanes, increased commuter rail, and far more. The next, and I think most uplifting segment, features bicycling efforts in Portland, Oregon and Boise, Idaho. Especially in Portland, bicycles are a major factor in sustainable transportation, increased fitness, lowered stress, and best of all, community spirit. Featuring numerous bicycling events and conveniences, Portland bikers actually talk to each other as they ride, a stark contrast to my experiences on Chicago mass-transit, where people kind of freak out if you say "hello." Finally, Transport takes a ride into the future, with the development process of the City Car, an all-electric, stackable vehicle for lease. This vehicle concept just plain makes a ton of sense, and when implemented, will greatly reduce carbon emissions for short urban trips. I've seen studies that indicate we could power 75% of the current U.S. vehicle fleet with electricity produced by power plants idling over night and not add a single extra plant or burn any extra fuel. Given City Car's range and battery duration, a lot of these cars could charge at night and take advantage of wated night-time electrical production. Although this point isn't mentioned in Transport , it is logical that this would be a net positive result of using this concept. In all, Transport gives a great hope for the future of urban transportation and overall well-being of those who live and commute around American cities. Tune in next Tuesday at 9pm. Regards, Dan Stafford Publisher, The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Tue May 20 01:43:32 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:43:32 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Mountain Bullies and Villains - Appalachian Coal Mining - The Independent Message-ID: <48326503.9070602@mailbag.com> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-mountain-that-lost-its-top-831037.html The mountain that lost its top It's the one environmental crime that no US politician will confront -- the destruction of Kentucky's mountains. Leonard Doyle visits the Appalachian peaks being blasted by Big Coal /Tuesday, 20 May 2008/ *SOUTHWING* Photo of a mountaintop removal operation in the Appalachians * Photos enlarge * Print Print * Email Email Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share * Digg It * del.icio.us * Facebook * Stumbleupon What are these? Change font size: A | A | A The road slicing through the thickly forested hills of eastern Kentucky used to be called the Daniel Boone Parkway. It was named for the controversial American folk hero who fought his way across Indian country to settle a state where many of his descendants still live. That was before the coal industry began blowing up the Appalachian Mountains as a cheap way of getting at the black stuff below, behaviour decried by the environmental group Appalachian Voices as "one of the greatest human rights and environmental tragedies in America's recent history". Daniel Boone's road is now the Hal Rogers Parkway, named after one of the Kentucky coal industry's closest friends in Washington, a Republican Congressman of 34 years. It passes through a mountain range older than the Himalayas and is blanketed in broadleaf forests rivalled only by the Amazon basin in its biodiversity. But the canopy of trees which lines the parkway as it rises from the bluegrass horse country to the mountains is a trompe l'oeil. The lush forest gives way to scraggly trees along the ridge-line, and behind those trees is evidence of unspeakable ecological violence. In a process known as mountaintop removal an upland moonscape is being created, which is incapable of regenerating trees. As far as the eye can see, the land is grey and pockmarked with huge black lakes, filled with toxic coal slurry. This has come about because of America's insatiable appetite for cheap coal to generate electricity, a process enthusiastically backed by the Bush administration as it tries to displace the consumption of imported oil. And the Democrats are little better. They control Kentucky and neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton have dared to challenge "King Coal" while campaigning. The devastation being wrought on Appalachia is best appreciated from the air. An organisation called Southwinds offers people an eagle-eye view of the carnage, not readily appreciated from the road. Another way to see what's going on behind the ridge-line is to take a Google Earth virtual tour of an online memorial to the 470 mountains blown up and levelled in recent years. The act of destroying a million-year-old mountain has several distinct stages. First it is earmarked for removal and the hardwood forest cover, containing over 500 species of tree per acre in this region, is bulldozed away. The trees are typically burnt rather than logged, because mining companies are not in the lumber business. Then topsoil is scraped away and high explosives laid in the sandstone. Thousands of blasts go off across the region every day, blowing up what the mining industry calls "overburden". The rubble is then tipped into the valleys -- more than 7,000 have already been filled -- and more than 700 miles of rivers and streams have disappeared under rubble and thousands more soiled with toxic waste. The process has accelerated wildly under George Bush. His pro-business-at-any-price credo led to the tossing out of strict federal restrictions against dumping mining rubble within 250 feet of a mountain stream. The toxic spoil laden with heavy metals, which results from blowing up mountains, was renamed "fill", enabling the mining companies to use the cheapest method possible of disposing of it. Once the rock is blown up and the coal separated out, the flattened mountaintops can only support a thin cover of grass. Tens of thousands of acres of mountain have been transformed in this way in Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia. Deep in the Kentucky woods McKinley Sumner's yapping dachshund was no match for the mine company's bulldozer. It arrived unannounced on Mr Sumner's land earlier this year and was soon snapping off full-grown trees as if they were twigs. Mr Sumner, in his seventies, recalls putting on his high-top boots "because the copperheads and rattlesnakes were still out" and hotfooting it up the small mountain at the back of his house, to confront the miners by himself. By the time he had shooed them off what he calls the "Sumner estate", all 93 acres of it, and had obtained a restraining order against the mining company the damage was done. The forest his parents had started homesteading in the 1930s, and which he has worked since he was a boy, had been devastated by the blade of the bulldozer. Trees were piled one on top of the other and all the topsoil had been shoved into the valley below. With the help of a lawyer and a social justice organisation called Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Mr Sumner won his court battle and the mining company was ordered to repair the damage to his land. Instead of doing what the court has ordered, the company is trying to break him in other more subtle ways. Mr Sumner's lands have been listed in the local paper every one of the past five weeks as earmarked for "mountaintop removal", something he has never agreed to. Company executives have put the word out that he is "holding up mining in the area", setting him against the coal mining families in the area. Strange people showed up on his land to remove the markers of a land survey, which cost $6,000, in order to delineate his hillside from a neighbour's, which has been approved for mountaintop removal. "I feel just awful," Mr Sumner, said. "We live in a democracy and this is not supposed to happen in a democracy. They are taking our rights away from us." The daughter and sister of miners, Teri Blanton is a self-described anti-coal activist and prime mover of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. As a young single mother she returned to Harlan County from Chicago in search of what she hoped would be a healthier lifestyle for her children. What Ms Blanton could not have known is that the well water her family and community were drinking from was contaminated by the toxic chemical run-off from a mining equipment repair shop. "They had this great big vat filled with degreasing chemicals which they would dump into the ground every few months," Ms Blanton said. "They even sprayed the gravel roads with the stuff in summer to keep the dust down." At 29, Ms Blanton developed cancer, which she survived. But many of her friends and neighbours from Harlan County died young, and she has dedicated the past two decades of her life to helping those threatened by coal-mining interests and getting the word out to an uninterested American public about the ecological devastation which is taking place in Appalachia. "For the last 100 years Kentucky has provided the coal that fuelled America's growth and wealth," she said. "But our wages are low and our schools and hospitals are lousy. This is one of the poorest places in America and I often think that it is deliberately so, so that they can do whatever they want to this polluted community." The headwaters of several major rivers on America's eastern seaboard rise in the Kentucky Mountain. They should be teeming with steelhead trout at this time of the year, with fishermen working the banks. But the rivers have been dead for much of the past 100 years, and the Kentucky Tourist Authority came up blank when asked to find a fly fishing destination within 50 miles of where the mountaintop removal takes place. There is plenty of public money being spent promoting the coal industry, including the practice of blowing up mountains. Each year the state gives about $400,000 (?200,000) to groups controlled by the coal industry. A website describes mountaintop mining as "simply the right thing to do -- both for the environment and the local economy -- a true win win". "The environmentalists throw out a lot of negative stuff, like kids are suffering from asthma because they breathe particulate matter from living near coal-fired power plants, or deaths caused on the roads by big coal trucks," says Bill Caylor of the Kentucky Coal Association. "We're trying to counteract that." The message he gives out is that mountaintop removal is actually good for the environment because "what's left is flatter, more useful land on top of the mountain". Teri Blanton laughs off the audacity of the propaganda effort and takes me to see Damon Morgan, at least 80 years old, in yet another part of the mountains. A veteran of Second World War (he survived Iowa Jima,) Mr Morgan returned to the mountains after a career on the railways. A couple of years ago, he claims, two mining companies, Horizon Resources and International Coal Group, trespassed along one of his property lines. "They have done damage to the land and to my personal property -- trees, rock and dirt debris have been pushed on to my property and down the side of the mountain." But worse was to come and now land he calls his own is threatened with being mined because an estranged relative is challenging his title. "We made the biggest part of our living on that land." he said. "We planted vegetables, and we had apple orchards, and there was a lot of wild huckleberry back up on that mountain ... we picked them. And I've hunted in there, I've dug herbs. And now, that is all gone. It's completely moved away. "The coal industry is an outlaw industry that does not consider the rights of its neighbours or the rights of the land and environment. The industry is out to make a profit and has no regard for the damages done to the citizens of this country," Mr Morgan said. He has now been gagged by the courts and but for Teri Blanton his story would remain untold. She takes me to another part of the mountains. Mary Jane and Raleigh Adams, also in their seventies, are fighting Whymore Coal Company. When the Adams family declared that the mining company had violated its lease to cross their land the fight went to court. The ruling went against the Adamses and the court ruling now bars them from walking on their own land. "We believe we were just run over by the Circuit Judge House and by the coal company lawyers who lied and said that we had said that the lease was valid," said a traumatised Mary Jane Adams. When Raleigh Adams took a picture of the mining taking place on his land and sent it to the local paper he was found to be in contempt. "We now can't get on our own land, and the mining is going forward without our permission. We are even blocked from stepping on our property even when they aren't working," Mr Adams said. 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Message-ID: <509123.39620.qm@web83807.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Charlie Reese posts another great article on reality and the failures of the MSM and Bush administration. http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese458.html Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edward_rynearson at yahoo.com Tue May 20 11:42:26 2008 From: edward_rynearson at yahoo.com (Edward Rynearson) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 08:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show Message-ID: <600354.80976.qm@web30007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Monday May 19, 2008 Alex Jones talks to Presidential Candidate and Congressman Ron Paul, author of the New York Times Number 1 Best Selling Book The Revolution: A Manifesto about the upcoming GOP convention, his take on the field of presidential candidates and the impact of the collapsing dollar on politics. 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In eight thirty-minute > episodes three "green experts" travel around the British countryside > advising and assisting a range of citizens in realizing their eco goals. > > *_Tuesday, July 1^st _* > > *9:00pm* > > *"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 1 **(U.S. Television Premiere) -* > In the suburban town of Aylesbury, the Witheys -- Stella; Mark, her > husband of three years; and Stella's 14-year-old son Jak -- admit they > have given little thought to environmental issues. They're a two-car > family, with loads of electronic gadgets and a rather cavalier > approach to consumption. > > *10:10pm* > > */Wetlands Preserved /**(U.S. Television Premiere)/ /*-- Directed by > Dean Budnick. From 1989 to 2001, Budnick chronicles the > environmentally friendly club's legend with rare vintage concert > footage and accounts from the club's former owners, rock critics, > musicians and club regulars. > > * * > > * * > > *_Tuesday, July 8_* > > *9:00pm e/p* > > * **"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 2 **(U.S. Television Premiere) > -* The affluent Buchannan family -- John, Susan and their children, > 19-year-old Kris and 16-year-old Aimee -- share a sumptuous home near > Glasgow, Scotland. They own three cars and a fourth vehicle is in the > offing; their meals are largely comprised of imported ingredients. > > *10:10pm* > > *Garbage Warrior* *(Original Production)* -- Directed by Oliver Hodge > and co-production of Open Eye Media, ITVS International and Sundance > Channel. This inspiring film profiles maverick architect Michael > Reynolds, who has spent thirty years developing radically original > models of self-sustaining housing near Taos, New Mexico. ** > > _ _ > > *_Tuesday, July 15^th _* > > *9:00pm * > > *"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 3 **(U.S. Television Premiere) - > *The Fowlers of Dunkirk -- successful entrepreneur Roger; his wife > Nicola; and their children, 15-year-old Francis, 13-year-old Jonathan > and 9-year-old Katya -- have a carbon footprint five times the British > national average. They play loads of games, have a shocking number of > TVs, and host weekly parties that generate lots of empty bottles and > leftover food -- all of which ends up as landfill event. > > *10:10pm* > > */In the Pit/** **--** *Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo. To give a human > face to seemingly unendurable labor, Mexican documentarian Rulfo > visited a major construction site as workers toiled to build an upper > deck of Mexico City's immense Periferico Highway. Grand Jury Prize > for World Documentary, 2006 Sundance Film Festival. > > > > *_Tuesday, July 22^nd _* > > *9:00pm * > > *"**Outrageous Wasters**"** Episode 4 **(U.S. Television Premiere) - > *Hairdressers/salon owners Stewart and Anji Armodtrading live 13 miles > outside of London in Maidenhead, sharing a home with their 21-year-old > year daughter Shanelle, their 18-year-old daughter Strong, and > Strong's friend, 17-year-old Carla. Anji runs about 35 loads of > laundry per week, and computer programmer Shanelle ends each day with > a luxuriant bath > > *10:10pm*** > > */Genesis/** (Sundance Channel Premiere)* *--** *Directed by Claude > Nuridsany, Marie P?rennou. From the French team behind the > /Microcosmos/ comes this bewitching look at the origins and evolution > of life on Earth. > > *_ _* > > *_Tuesday, July 29^th _* > > *9:00pm * > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 1 **(U.S. > Television Premiere) **--** *In the borough of Wirral in northwest > England, Dick meets Helen and Russell Keenan, who have ambitious plans > for a self-sufficient eco-compound. > > *9:35pm*** > > */The Greening of Southie/** **--** *Directed by Ian Cheney. This > documentary goes behind the scenes and onto the scaffolds to follow > the construction of Boston's first green residential building, a > luxury condominium complex called the Macallen. > > *_ _* > > *_Tuesday, August 5 _* > > *August 5^th at 9:00pm* > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 2 **(U.S. > Television Premiere)* Dick and James meet sisters Jake and Candy > Moriarty, who have sold the family B&B and now want to create an > eco-friendly campsite on land they own in Cornwall. > > * * > > *9:35pm* > > */The Unforeseen/** (Television Premiere) *Directed by Laura Dunn. > Combining lyrical cinematography, illuminating archival footage and > even-handed reportage, Dunn maps three decades of conflict between > real estate developers and community-based conservationists in Austin, > Texas. Executive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford. > > *_ _**__* > > *_Tuesday, August 12 _* > > *9:00pm e/p* > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 3 **(U.S. > Television Premiere)* Dick meets Chris and Carla Fletcher, rat-race > refugees who have settled in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to grow their own > food and raise livestock (including an unusual breed of sheep). > > *9:35pm* > > */Grass /*-- Directed by Ron Mann. While it's unlikely to change US > drug policy, this entertaining documentary chronicling the bizarre > 100-year history of laws against the use of marijuana may prompt > outrage, discussion and a perverse sense of nostalgia. > > > > *_Tuesday, August 19_* > > *9:00pm e/p* > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 4 **(U.S. > Television Premiere)* James meets Maggie of Staffordshire, who is > renovating her 1930s house in a thoroughly eco-friendly fashion, > re-using original fixtures and as many eco-friendly materials as > possible. > > *9:35pm* > > */Ice Breaker/** (Television Premiere)* -- Directed by Jody Shapiro > and David Best. This documentary captures 42 days onboard a Canadian > Coast Guard ship as it sails from Newfoundland to the high Arctic, > patrolling some of the most spectacular and dangerous waterways on the > planet. ** > > > > *_Tuesday, August 26_* > > *9:00pm e/p* > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 5 **(U.S. > Television Premiere)* At New House Farm, James recruits his friends > and his sister Charlotte help dig a new pond to attract more wildlife > -- and give the family's ducklings their own home. Dick meets with > East London resident Andrew Martin, who wants to install a solar hot > water heater in his back garden > > *9:35pm* > > */Everything/**/'/**/s Cool/* -- Directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith > Helfand. Mixing humor with urgency, Gold and Helfand /(Blue Vinyl)/ > profile the small group of global warming messengers who continue to > prod a largely apathetic public into political activism. > > *_ _* > > *_Tuesday, September _* > > *9:00pm e/p* > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 6 **(U.S. > Television Premiere)* In Lincolnshire, we meet Zannah and Arthur, who > are renovating a 200-year-old cottage that has no onsite heating source. > > > > *9:35pm* > > */Somba Ke: The Money Place/* -- Directed by Linda Henningson, Petr > Cizek and David Henningson. /Sombe Ke/ reveals the neglected story of > the remote Canadian region that supplied the Manhattan Project with > uranium for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs, and its dark and > disturbing legacy. > > *_ _* > > *_Tuesday, September 9_* > > *9:00pm e/p* > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 7 **(U.S. > Television Premiere)*: In the seaside area of New Forest, Matt > Goldschmeid wants to make a permanent home of the lush vacation > property his parents bought in the 1980s. > > *9:35pm* > > */Burning the Future: Coal in America /*-- Directed by David Novack. > West Virginia provides coal to produce electricity for half the > nation. Ironically, while preserving jobs, coal mining disfigures > mountainsides, destroys plant and animal species and spreads toxic > groundwater. > > > > *_Tuesday, September 16_* > > *9:00pm e/p* > > *"**It**'**s Not Easy Being Green**"** Season 2/Episode 8 **(U.S. > Television Premiere* Dick and Jim visit a Cambridge mechanic named > Gary, who wants to save money by switching his car to biodiesel. > Using scrounged and free materials, the men construct a backyard > biofuel processor, which will convert used vegetable oil from the > local take-out restaurant. > > > > *9:35pm* > > */Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa/** **--** *Directed by Jeremy > Stulberg and Randy Stulberg. Some 400 people make their home on a > rugged 15-square mile stretch of New Mexico desert known as the Mesa. > Devoid of basic amenities like running water, paved roads and power > lines, the Mesa isn't an easy place to live, but it does offer > solitude and autonomy to those who need it, as well as an alternative > to contemporary consumer society. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steven303 at aol.com Tue May 20 18:31:46 2008 From: steven303 at aol.com (steven303 at aol.com) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:31:46 -0400 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Stop emails Message-ID: <8CA88E06C38D8A6-1314-2F2A@Webmail-mg21.sim.aol.com> Please take my name off this e-list. I am at a standstill with all the emails I so enthusiatsitally signed up for.? Now, I need out. Thanks? SG Ayre -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Wed May 21 11:23:58 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:23:58 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] UW-Madison News Release--Putting Local Foods On The Map In-Reply-To: <200805141429.m4EETZKr021468@sift.uc.wisc.edu> References: <200805141429.m4EETZKr021468@sift.uc.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <48343E8E.9020507@mailbag.com> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > 5/14/08 > > EDITOR'S NOTE: Visit the student-created 100-Mile Diet Map at http://www.chickmappers.com/100miledietmap > > CONTACT: Althea Archer, (218) 556-8053, aaarcher at wisc.edu; Heidi Banfi, (608) 698-3384, hmbanfi at gmail.com; Fran Ellsworth, (608) 239-4772, fran.ellsworth at gmail.com; Megan Turner, (608) 332-4572, mnturner at wisc.edu > > UW-MADISON GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS PUT LOCAL FOODS ON THE MAP > > MADISON - As temperatures warm, farm fields begin to green and outdoor farmers' markets get under way, the time is ripe for thinking about local foods. For Madison residents, finding locally produced foods is now just a mouse click away. > > Four University of Wisconsin-Madison geography students have created an interactive, online map of food sources within 100 miles of Madison. Their 100-Mile Diet Map aims to educate consumers and provide a central resource for those interested in eating close to home. > > Touted as a way to access fresher food from known sources, reduce transportation costs and invest in the local economy, the 100-mile diet refers to eating only foods that were grown or produced within a 100-mile radius of your home. First described by a Canadian couple in 2005, the 100-mile diet concept has grown in popularity recently as people become more concerned about the environmental and social consequences of their food choices. > > The idea resonated strongly with a group of geographic information systems (GIS) certificate program students enrolled this spring in geography professor Mark Harrower's Animated and Web-Based Mapping class. For Althea Archer, of Bemidji, Minn.; Heidi Banfi, of Deerfield, Wis.; Fran Ellsworth, of Madison; and Megan Turner, of Madison, a 100-Mile Diet Map sounded like the perfect end-of-semester project. > > Harrower, a cartographer, challenges his students to design Web-based maps that address real-world problems. "Who needs this map, and who's going to use it? What community would benefit?" he asks. "We don't just make stuff for the heck of it; we make it because there's an obvious need." > > Madison is lucky to have a variety of local eating resources, says Turner, but information is often scattered and not always user-friendly. "Maps are a powerful tool to clarify concepts and to organize data," she says. "We wanted to make it visually appealing with simple directions while also functional." > > In addition, the reality of eating locally can seem daunting even for people interested in trying it. "I think people view it as a challenge," says Banfi. "One of the goals of our map is to show that it's easy." > > "The food map is a great example of taking on ? a really current topic," Harrower says. "It's such a geographic and spatial problem, and yet I've not seen any maps that help you figure this one out." > > One of his requirements is that students work with real data. The food map group members gathered much of their information from local organizations, including the Madison-based nonprofit Research, Education, Action and Policy on Food Group (REAP) and the Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC). > > An initial public version of their map, available at http://www.chickmappers.com/100miledietmap, shows the locations of a variety of local-food sources, including farms, farmers' markets, food cooperatives and restaurants that serve locally produced items. For each, an icon links to contact information and what products are available, from fresh fruits and vegetables to meats, cheeses and eggs. Other links direct users to general information about the 100-mile diet, the benefits of local eating and ways to plan a diet based on seasonal local foods. > > Map users can tailor the food map to their own needs by selecting a subset of information - for example, viewing sources of a specific type of product or finding nearby farms involved in community-supported agriculture, a system where people can buy farm shares at the beginning of the growing season in return for a share of the harvest throughout the year. > > "The benefit of having this be an interactive Web map is that there are lots of different layers," says Archer. "The average user who just wants to know what the 100-mile diet is can go to the Web site and read and learn more. But if you're already doing it and you're in the middle of winter, and you realize, 'Oh no, I'm running out of vegetables - where can I get some?' you can use it too." > > Of course, some foods cannot be produced locally in Wisconsin - coffee, chocolate and olive oil are three big ones - but the students point out that consumers still have choices about where to buy such products. For example, they've chosen to include local coffee roasters and chocolatiers on their map. > > "Even if the source for the coffee isn't local, at least the processing is done locally," Archer says. > > Ellsworth adds, "I think there will always be food products that people aren't willing or able to give up that aren't locally sourced. But I think minimizing them is the goal. I'm not giving up my bananas. But there's no reason we should get spinach from California." > > She and the other students hope to dispel the idea that eating locally requires radical changes and to show how small steps can fit into many everyday lifestyles. > > "The goal of this isn't to be hard and fast and not eat anything from outside of 100 miles, it's trying to get people's attention shifted more toward that idea," says Ellsworth. "If everyone tried to incorporate as many food items from within 100 miles as possible, that's a lot more powerful than five people being so strict that they won't even cook their food in olive oil." > > They also challenge the notion that local products are more expensive than conventionally sourced counterparts. > > "Especially with food costs skyrocketing and gasoline prices going up, it may be cheaper to buy a quarter of a cow - or whatever - from a local farmer and put it in the freezer," Banfi explains. "Educating people about their other options is important." > > Though the food map started as a class project, the women will continue to maintain and expand it, possibly adding interactive resources such as recipes, blogs and even food preservation tutorials. They also intend to make the map seasonal so users can see what products are available even in the dead of winter. Ultimately, they hope to see this type of map expand beyond Madison and even beyond the state. > > "It's a lot of work ? But I really want to see it nationwide, so that you can put in your address and find out what sources are available within 100 miles," Archer says. "That's the big-picture dream." > > All four women will receive their professional GIS certificates this month. > ### > - Jill Sakai, (608) 262-9772, jasakai at wisc.edu > > > > **************************************************** > For questions or comments about UW-Madison's email > news release system, please send an email to: > releases at news.wisc.edu > > For more UW-Madison news, please visit: > http://www.news.wisc.edu/ > > University Communications > University of Wisconsin-Madison > 27 Bascom Hall > 500 Lincoln Drive > Madison, WI 53706 > > Phone: (608) 262-3571 > Fax: (608) 262-2331 > From edward_rynearson at yahoo.com Wed May 21 14:30:54 2008 From: edward_rynearson at yahoo.com (Edward Rynearson) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Jesse Ventura and the 9/11 Truth on the Howard Stern Show Message-ID: <889330.9589.qm@web30003.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Huge new development! . . . 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URL: From chykynlyps at gmail.com Wed May 21 23:38:16 2008 From: chykynlyps at gmail.com (Richard Krzyzanowski) Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:38:16 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] UW-Madison News Release--Putting Local Foods On The Map In-Reply-To: <48343E8E.9020507@mailbag.com> References: <200805141429.m4EETZKr021468@sift.uc.wisc.edu> <48343E8E.9020507@mailbag.com> Message-ID: does anyone know how to get in touch with the people that did this project? i am interested in setting up a site like this for chicago and would truly appreciate any help/ insight anyone might have into starting a project like this - thank you rich On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Daniel Stafford wrote: > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE >> 5/14/08 >> >> EDITOR'S NOTE: Visit the student-created 100-Mile Diet Map at >> http://www.chickmappers.com/100miledietmap >> >> CONTACT: Althea Archer, (218) 556-8053, aaarcher at wisc.edu; Heidi Banfi, >> (608) 698-3384, hmbanfi at gmail.com; Fran Ellsworth, (608) 239-4772, >> fran.ellsworth at gmail.com; Megan Turner, (608) 332-4572, mnturner at wisc.edu >> UW-MADISON GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS PUT LOCAL FOODS ON THE MAP >> >> MADISON - As temperatures warm, farm fields begin to green and outdoor >> farmers' markets get under way, the time is ripe for thinking about local >> foods. For Madison residents, finding locally produced foods is now just a >> mouse click away. >> >> Four University of Wisconsin-Madison geography students have created an >> interactive, online map of food sources within 100 miles of Madison. Their >> 100-Mile Diet Map aims to educate consumers and provide a central resource >> for those interested in eating close to home. >> Touted as a way to access fresher food from known sources, reduce >> transportation costs and invest in the local economy, the 100-mile diet >> refers to eating only foods that were grown or produced within a 100-mile >> radius of your home. First described by a Canadian couple in 2005, the >> 100-mile diet concept has grown in popularity recently as people become more >> concerned about the environmental and social consequences of their food >> choices. >> >> The idea resonated strongly with a group of geographic information systems >> (GIS) certificate program students enrolled this spring in geography >> professor Mark Harrower's Animated and Web-Based Mapping class. For Althea >> Archer, of Bemidji, Minn.; Heidi Banfi, of Deerfield, Wis.; Fran Ellsworth, >> of Madison; and Megan Turner, of Madison, a 100-Mile Diet Map sounded like >> the perfect end-of-semester project. >> >> Harrower, a cartographer, challenges his students to design Web-based maps >> that address real-world problems. "Who needs this map, and who's going to >> use it? What community would benefit?" he asks. "We don't just make stuff >> for the heck of it; we make it because there's an obvious need." >> >> Madison is lucky to have a variety of local eating resources, says Turner, >> but information is often scattered and not always user-friendly. "Maps are a >> powerful tool to clarify concepts and to organize data," she says. "We >> wanted to make it visually appealing with simple directions while also >> functional." >> >> In addition, the reality of eating locally can seem daunting even for >> people interested in trying it. "I think people view it as a challenge," >> says Banfi. "One of the goals of our map is to show that it's easy." >> >> "The food map is a great example of taking on ? a really current topic," >> Harrower says. "It's such a geographic and spatial problem, and yet I've not >> seen any maps that help you figure this one out." >> >> One of his requirements is that students work with real data. The food map >> group members gathered much of their information from local organizations, >> including the Madison-based nonprofit Research, Education, Action and Policy >> on Food Group (REAP) and the Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture >> Coalition (MACSAC). >> >> An initial public version of their map, available at >> http://www.chickmappers.com/100miledietmap, shows the locations of a >> variety of local-food sources, including farms, farmers' markets, food >> cooperatives and restaurants that serve locally produced items. For each, an >> icon links to contact information and what products are available, from >> fresh fruits and vegetables to meats, cheeses and eggs. Other links direct >> users to general information about the 100-mile diet, the benefits of local >> eating and ways to plan a diet based on seasonal local foods. >> >> Map users can tailor the food map to their own needs by selecting a subset >> of information - for example, viewing sources of a specific type of product >> or finding nearby farms involved in community-supported agriculture, a >> system where people can buy farm shares at the beginning of the growing >> season in return for a share of the harvest throughout the year. >> "The benefit of having this be an interactive Web map is that there are >> lots of different layers," says Archer. "The average user who just wants to >> know what the 100-mile diet is can go to the Web site and read and learn >> more. But if you're already doing it and you're in the middle of winter, and >> you realize, 'Oh no, I'm running out of vegetables - where can I get some?' >> you can use it too." >> >> Of course, some foods cannot be produced locally in Wisconsin - coffee, >> chocolate and olive oil are three big ones - but the students point out that >> consumers still have choices about where to buy such products. For example, >> they've chosen to include local coffee roasters and chocolatiers on their >> map. >> >> "Even if the source for the coffee isn't local, at least the processing is >> done locally," Archer says. >> Ellsworth adds, "I think there will always be food products that people >> aren't willing or able to give up that aren't locally sourced. But I think >> minimizing them is the goal. I'm not giving up my bananas. But there's no >> reason we should get spinach from California." >> >> She and the other students hope to dispel the idea that eating locally >> requires radical changes and to show how small steps can fit into many >> everyday lifestyles. >> >> "The goal of this isn't to be hard and fast and not eat anything from >> outside of 100 miles, it's trying to get people's attention shifted more >> toward that idea," says Ellsworth. "If everyone tried to incorporate as many >> food items from within 100 miles as possible, that's a lot more powerful >> than five people being so strict that they won't even cook their food in >> olive oil." >> >> They also challenge the notion that local products are more expensive than >> conventionally sourced counterparts. >> "Especially with food costs skyrocketing and gasoline prices going up, it >> may be cheaper to buy a quarter of a cow - or whatever - from a local farmer >> and put it in the freezer," Banfi explains. "Educating people about their >> other options is important." >> >> Though the food map started as a class project, the women will continue to >> maintain and expand it, possibly adding interactive resources such as >> recipes, blogs and even food preservation tutorials. They also intend to >> make the map seasonal so users can see what products are available even in >> the dead of winter. Ultimately, they hope to see this type of map expand >> beyond Madison and even beyond the state. >> >> "It's a lot of work ? But I really want to see it nationwide, so that you >> can put in your address and find out what sources are available within 100 >> miles," Archer says. "That's the big-picture dream." >> >> All four women will receive their professional GIS certificates this >> month. >> ### >> - Jill Sakai, (608) 262-9772, jasakai at wisc.edu >> >> >> >> **************************************************** >> For questions or comments about UW-Madison's email >> news release system, please send an email to: >> releases at news.wisc.edu >> >> For more UW-Madison news, please visit: http://www.news.wisc.edu/ >> >> University Communications >> University of Wisconsin-Madison >> 27 Bascom Hall >> 500 Lincoln Drive >> Madison, WI 53706 >> >> Phone: (608) 262-3571 >> Fax: (608) 262-2331 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CitizensTruth mailing list > CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/citizenstruth > website: http://citizenstruth.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mr. Gage has been all over the country speaking about the events of 9/11, most recently to an audience at MIT, where he was received quite enthusiastically. Along with Richard Gage's presentation, Kevin Barrett is scheduled to make a speech and participate in the Q and A session following both presentations. A small but dedicated group of people have been working for many weeks, firming the arrangements, advertising, sending mailings to architecture and engineering firms, reserving A/V equipment, etc. We are fervently hoping to get a standing-room-only crowd to see this very important presentation, but even if we do that, it is unlikely that we will be able to match receipts with the expenses. Therefore, I'm asking you to support our efforts by donating anything you can by using the link below. It is so easy, and you can donate any amount you wish, as little as $5. In addition, please pass the link to any lists to which you belong. Thank you in advance for your generosity to an extremely worthwhile cause. Yours in Truth, Ragen Gillam http://dupage911truth.chipin.com/mypages/view/id/0003741cf90b797f Richard Gage/Kevin Barrett in Chicago Friday, May 30, 7:00 PM UIC - Student Center East 750 South Halsted Chicago, IL www.dupage911truth.org 312-493-7306 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From r.gillam at comcast.net Mon May 26 12:27:01 2008 From: r.gillam at comcast.net (Ragen Gillam) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:27:01 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Memorial Day Message-ID: <002401c8bf4d$53c6e5b0$6501a8c0@ragen> This is ten years old, but still relevant. Art Hilgart ahilgart at kzoo.edu Memorial Day Art Hilgart If today is typical of Memorial Days past, editors and commentators throughout the nation (and perhaps elsewhere on this page) are paying tribute to those who died for our freedom. The only problem in these facile sentiments is history. On another Memorial Day, a prominent columnist numbered among those who died for freedom the fallen in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and our invasion of Viet Nam. The point of the American Revolution was not freedom, but whether our capital was to be in London or (eventually) the District of Columbia. Our personal liberties, such as they are, are provided by the post-war afterthought, the Bill of Rights. The Civil War was a similar conflict, this time over whether the Confederacy would have its seat of government in Richmond or Washington. Emancipation was another post-war round of constitutional amendments. The connection of our liberty to our Indochinese wars is known, if at all, only to those who assert it. Liberty is a fragile thing that has nothing to do with battlefields. The Bill of Rights was the work not of generals, but a small group of intellectuals- liberal intellectuals. The freedom promised by our Constitution is realized only through the untiring work of the American Civil Liberties Union and similar organizations acting in the courts on our behalf. Warriors, on the other hand, seem to have little regard for the Constitution. Richard Nixon killed in Asia and gave us Watergate; Ronald Reagan killed in Nicaragua and gave us Iran-Contra. George Bush ran against the Bill of Rights and invaded Panama. Our ongoing Gulf War is to maintain the illegal feudal ownership of Kuwait by the Al Sabah family, not for anybody's freedom. And even if our wars were somehow related to our freedoms, there is the other side of dying for them-- killing for them. Let us say that our right to vote was somehow contingent on the action at My Lai. In that case, I would willingly give up my vote to restore those lives. It is one thing to risk one's own life for a principle and quite another to kill the innocent for one. If one seeks exemplary death for freedom, look to Martin Luther King, to the six at Kent State and Jackson State, to Goodman, Schwerner, and Cheney. Those who seek to sanctify our past wars by tying them to liberty are undoubtedly moved by sympathy with the survivors of the sons and husbands who died carrying out orders issued from the safety of Washington. The past is past, they may rationalize. What are a few lies to make people feel good? What they do, of course, is prepare another generation of sons and husbands to kill and die in the fantasy that it is all for liberty. Some sympathy. The name of the holiday is Memorial Day. Let us therefore honor the past by remembering it and not by inventing it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Mon May 26 14:27:59 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 13:27:59 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Evade Human Extinction Now! Message-ID: <483B012F.8040306@mailbag.com> /*Evade Human Extinction Now!*/ After watching /The 11th Hour/ , an environmental film on a scale even greater than /An Inconvenient Truth/ , I came away with several new understandings. First of all, the climate change issue of global warming is really only the worst of a self-inflicted interconnected web of issues killing off species the world over. Together, all of these issues, from deforestation, to pollution, to killing off 90% of sea life, (something we've /*already done*/) are adding up to the perfect storm that will wipe the human species off the face of the planet in only a few generations if we don't act now. It isn't just global warming anymore. It isn't just pollution anymore. It isn't just species extinctions anymore. It isn't just crazy weather anymore. It isn't just overflowing land fills anymore. It's /*Evade Human Extinction Now!*/ As with everything else that is a result of a collective cultural insanity, framing the issue is one major key to solving it. This Earth will continue spinning around the Sun whether or not we exist upon it. *We are making the choice, in the next ten to fifteen years, whether or not most life, including humans, will survive on this planet. It is that simple, and that direct, and that urgent*. The good news is, once we have enough awareness built up out there, and the collective grass roots will to change, human society is capable of changing quite radically in a very short time. If Detroit can completely retool in six months during the 1940's from making cars to making tanks and airplanes, so can the rest of global industry. Already, per //The 11th Hour/ /, there are over one million environmental activist organizations around the world beginning to act in concert to effect large scale change. If we /*as a species*/ do not follow their lead, the humankind can not survive more than another century or two on this planet. If we get it together, and work together, we can have a long and healthy run on this planet, and beyond. We can save the future of innumerable other species as well, many of which our own survival depends on in subtle but critical ways. Watch //The 11th Hour/ /all the way through, and you'll see an integrated presentation of the problems we face during the first half. That alone is more than most other films on such subjects have achieved. Many present only one facet of a larger picture. //The 11th Hour/ /goes on to also present an integrated array of solutions. If there were unlimited time, perhaps many of those solutions could be explored more in depth, but there is plenty there to present the overall picture of a society of solutions instead of a society of destruction or of regression. It is NOT necessary to go back to stone knives, berries, roots, and wearing skins. It is simply necessary to re-design modern society to be able to function withing the available resources and that preserves the diversity of life on this planet, including humans. Additionally, many possible resources we have available that would be beneficial instead of harmful are grossly under-utilized. In a strange way, this is actually good news, as it gives us something good to change TO. Critically important is the concept that every person in global society votes, regardless of their age, every single time they make a purchase. Granted, what happens in the political voting booth has huge repercussions, but every day we vote with every bit of currency we spend as well. So, to /*Evade Human Extinction Now, */what we really need to do is love and respect life, use forms of energy that are beneficial to life, and respect the rights of nature to coexist with us. If we don't respect the rights of natural systems to exist, they will ultimately fail - and no technology can save us from the loss of our own right to exist. /*Evade Human Extinction Now! - */Our grandchildren and great grandchildren will be very grateful for it, and even we ourselves will end up with better lives as a result. Choose life. I know we can do it. What I don't know is if we will do it. With great hope, Dan Stafford Publisher: The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal Publisher: The 1st Church of Healing The Earth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Wed May 28 02:33:11 2008 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 01:33:11 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Look! Bush former mouthpiece blows the whistle! Message-ID: Of course I don't for a second believe that this press secretary "didn't know" Bush and gang were telling total lies -- but now at least he "has discovered" they were. Ahem! WE knew they were lies -- so OF COURSE he did!!! But anyway, he's outing them while still in office! This is almost unprecedented and could give some momentum to impeachment -- which in turn could lead to Nuremberg-type treason trials, and (at least) Bush administration imprisonment. >From there we could get roll-back on all the unconstitutional laws that have been put in place, much to our peril. This may not be it at all -- but I just keep thinking SOMETHING will come out that blasts off of us the nightmare we've been living for 8 years (and behind-the-scenes stuff for far longer). A teacher I know affirms for us: "That much pain turns to that much joy." It would be nice if this were one of the first pebbles loosening up and clattering down the mountain of crap that's been piled upon us -- and the resulting avalanche takes Them down and frees US up! I do believe this will happen sooner or later -- and this breakthrough is one little tremor that could signal our impending relief -- due to THEIR total collapse! Connie http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/27/mcclellan.book/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Walterb306 at cs.com Wed May 28 10:40:59 2008 From: Walterb306 at cs.com (Walterb306 at cs.com) Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:40:59 -0400 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Look! Bush former mouthpiece blows the whistle! Message-ID: <0C7E92DD.70D0F33A.0D057BDA@cs.com> All, Re: Look! bush former mouthpiece blows the whistle! Right on! Two interesting items, practically across the columns from each other, on buzzflash.com today: 1) Pinochet suspects arrests ordered "The round-up is one of the biggest of its kind since the military leader's rule ended 18 years ago...Most of the arrest orders issued on Monday were for former members of Dina, (Pinochet's feared secret police force)...Since the return to democracy in 1990, Chile has put dozens of soldiers, policemen, and intelligence agents on trial for human rights abuses" 2) New book by same attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson, setting out in straight legal terms the case for impeaching Bush. Chile sets an example: there is no time limit to holding officials accountable for war crimes and civil rights abuses; there is no official too "high" to be held accountable. (While Pinochet was shielded to some extent by the claim of poor health and never faced trial, he was accused and outed. This suggests a convincing case for accountability to present to the general public, which contains many who are very hesitant to "attack" a President, among other reasons, not always conscious, that they identify him with the nation itself: If Chile can rise to the occasion and rectify past errors, shouldn't the United States, long held as the standard bearer of democracy, do the same? Beverley "Connie Smith" wrote: > > >Of course I don't for a second believe that this press secretary "didn't know" Bush and gang were telling total lies -- but now at least he "has covered" they were. > >Ahem! ?WE knew they were lies -- so OF COURSE he did!!! > >But anyway, he's outing them while still in office! ?This is almost unprecedented and could give some momentum to impeachment -- which in turn could lead to Nuremberg-type treason trials, and (at least) Bush administration imprisonment. > >>From there we could get roll-back on all the unconstitutional laws that have been put in place, much to our peril. > >This may not be it at all -- but I just keep thinking SOMETHING will come out that blasts off of us the nightmare we've been living for 8 years (and behind-the-scenes stuff for far longer). > >A teacher I know affirms for us: "That much pain turns to that much joy." ?It would be nice if this were one of the first pebbles loosening up and clattering down the mountain of crap that's been piled upon us -- and the resulting avalanche takes Them down and frees US up! > >I do believe this will happen sooner or later -- and this breakthrough is one little tremor that could signal our impending relief -- due to THEIR total collapse! > >Connie >http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/27/mcclellan.book/index.html > From aqmstaffo at mailbag.com Thu May 29 10:04:27 2008 From: aqmstaffo at mailbag.com (Daniel Stafford) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:04:27 -0500 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Phuru - Kaypaccha Pachamama Blues Message-ID: <483EB7EB.3090600@mailbag.com> A little "Mother Earth" blues del Sur... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tHMWX54WqI -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From garyfranchi at yahoo.com Thu May 29 17:27:01 2008 From: garyfranchi at yahoo.com (Gary Franchi, LLS) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CitizensTruth] BREAKING STORY - RTR NATIONAL CALL - TONIGHT 9:00pm EST Message-ID: <650275.79255.qm@web30401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Tonight RTR brings you a story soon to be on the front pages of every newspaper and news network across the country. Our guest, accompanied by his attorney will share with you his personal story of torture, loss, and betrayal by our own Government and cover up by the Canadian authorities to preserve their agenda for a North American Union. Not only will you hear his story but we will be putting out a call to action to put pressure on those who are tasked with protecting Americans abroad to fully address those Canadians whom violated international treaties with the help of members of the US Government. THIS CALL IS NOT TO BE MISSED. 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URL: From Walterb306 at cs.com Fri May 30 11:30:07 2008 From: Walterb306 at cs.com (Walterb306 at cs.com) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:30:07 EDT Subject: [CitizensTruth] Book discussion-strategy meeting 5-31-08 - REMINDER Message-ID: Book Discussion and Strategy Group You are invited to attend the 2nd part of discussion of Tom Hayden?s "Ending the War in Iraq" at 11:00 am, Saturday, May 31, 2008. Location for this meeting will be the upstairs meeting room (or in the downstairs lounge at the back) of the Buzz Caf?, 905 S. Lombard, Oak Park. (Ph. 708/524-3899). The Buzz Caf? is about ? mile west of Austin Blvd, and just off Harrison Street, the first exit north of the Eisenhower Expressway Austin Blvd. Exit. For those who have not had a chance to read Hayden?s book, there will be an overview presentation and handouts. In addition, we will have an update on research into legislation affecting civil rights. Hope you can attend this up-coming meeting. 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